Thread: Load Balancing with NGINX

Load balancing can be left to either hardware or software. For most of us, the expensive hardware is out of the question, but cheap (free) software will solve our needs just fine. Here’s a look at how nginx does load balancing

Code:

upstream  mysite  {
   server   www1.mysite.com;
   server   www2.mysite.com;
}

server {
   server_name www.mysite.com;
   location / {
      proxy_pass  http://mysite;
   }
}

The above configuration will send 50% of requests for www.mysite.com to www1.mysite.com and the other 50% to www2.mysite.com. However, if you add a “weight” tag onto the end of the “server” definition you can modify the percentages. Other useful options include max_fails and fail_timeout. For sticky sessions use ip_hash. Refer to the full documentation for further details.

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