Hai, I am looking for a free and simple to install Loadbalancing application on Linux (prefer Redhat or Debian). I've searched a little bit around on the internet and came accross multiple apllications: LVS/Ultra Donkey etc.. Does anyone have experience with Opensource loadbalancing and which one do you prefer. please let me know. Sinister

There is an article on linux.com about load balancing at: http://www.linux.com/articles/46735 Maybe this will help you.

Oke thank you i will have a look at this. Do you know which opensource loadbalancing is mostly used?

In my experience, the load-balancing tools and techniques used depends a great deal upon the applications you are running. Is this for load-balancing web (html) servers, database application servers, large-scale computational analysis, or what? There is single-host processor load balancing (for multi-processor and/or multi-core systems), multi-host single-CPU load balancing, multi-host multi-CPU/Core, multi-host multi-platform, etc, etc. and each environment type will be utilized differently for different load types. So, no single solution will handle all scenarios. Each targets a specific scenario or set of scenarios. If you would like more useful advice besides pointers to some literature to read, information about your requirements and development/runtime environments is required. FWIW, I have developed n-tier, cross platform, high-availability, load-balancing C++ application development frameworks for large-scale transaction processing systems - some of which run most semiconductor fabs around the world, so I have some modicum of experience in this domain... :-)

You're right. I want a Loadbalancer which i can use to loadbalance two apache2 linux webservers(Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz). is there any more information you need.. Appreciating the help!

I presume these are running on two separate host computers?

Jep there are two seperate physical machines.

You might want to check out http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ that provides a FOSS clustering solution for Linux that will provide the load-balancing capabilities you are looking for. Sorry that I don't have any experience with it, but it should provide a place to start. [quote]The Linux Virtual Server as an advanced load balancing solution can be used to build highly scalable and highly available network services, such as scalable web, cache, mail, ftp, media and VoIP services.[/quote]