Nginx, pronounced as Engine-x is an open-source Web server. More than just a Web server, it can operate as a reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, load balancer, lightweight file server and HTTP cache. Nginx has been used in many popular sites like BitBucket, WordPress, Pinterest, Qu...
HTTP Load Balancer provides sticky load balancing. Thus from a client session, first initial request followed by subsequent requests would get serviced from the same instance which serviced the first request. Also note clusterjsp application renders information on server and port which serviced the req...
Software-based load balancers are easy to set up on a BMC server as a Linux process. For example, the HAproxy server utility is simple to install and configure as a load balancer on a BMC instance. The setup has the following structure: The small BMC instance acts as a load balancer. ...
Web Server #3: CentOS 6.5 [IP: 192.168.0.123] - [hostname: web3srv.tecmintlocal.com] Web Server #4: CentOS 6.5 [IP: 192.168.0.124] - [hostname: web4srv.tecmintlocal.com] Step 1: Installing Apache on Client Machines 1.First we have to install Apache in all four server’s and sha...
Restart the Nginx server to incorporate the config changes Verify successful configuration of the Nginx load balancer setup Which Nginx config file should I edit? As your Nginx configuration grows, this will require changes to the file in which the upstream element and theproxy_passlocation setting...
Nginx allows us to assign a number specifying the proportion of traffic that should be directed to each server. A load balanced setup that included server weight could look like this: upstream backend { server backend1.example.com weight=1; server backend2.example.com weight=2; server backend...
Expand the Server and click on Application Pools Right click on WsusPool and choose advanced settings. Change Queue Length to 2000 Set the Private Virtual Memory. I am changing my lab to 4 times the default. Now that both servers are setup and configured cor...
In my previous post, I showedhow to create an Office Web Apps Server 2013 farm. Since I can’t leave you hanging, I am going to show you the next step of setting up a load balancer for the same. I assume you have created DNS entry for owaps.contoso.com and pointed it to virtual...
Test that the server replies to HTTP requests. Open the load balancer server’s public IP address in your web browser. When you see the default welcoming page for nginx, the installation is successful. If you have trouble loading the page, check that a firewall is not blocking your connecti...
Thebackendsection. Defines server pools that fulfill requests sent through the frontend. Thelistensection. Combines the functions of thefrontendandbackend. Uselistenfor smaller setups or when routing to a specific server group. A typical load balancer configuration file looks like the following: ...