Web Server Load Balancing Software

[vikramkalsi]

Hi Group,

We require a Web Server Load Balancing software for our development environment to simulate our Production environment which is using a HP SA7200 hardware based SLB. The development environment has two nodes running Apache 1.3.12. We are using Jserv and modplsql modules.

The minimum features that we are looking for -
1.) Open Source / Free / Shareware
2.) OS Preference - HPUX, Linux, Windows
3.) Sticky Mode i.e. a particular client's request should always be re-directed to 1 web-server within the sticky mode timeout value.
4.) Other desirable though not absolutely necessary features are - balancing algorithm based on either round-robin or server response time, load balancing between more than 2 web servers, automatic failover of requests to other servers in case a server goes down, etc.

All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in Anticipation, -Vikram Kalsi
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook

 

[vikramkalsi]

I missed one thing - it need not be content aware, even a NAT based load balancer would do.

-Vikram Kalsi
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook