Psychz - Ramesh
Votes: 0Posted On: Mar 12, 2018 07:24:58
Hi!
There are a lot of options for load balancers available for users in the market. However, it is up to you to choose the one that suits your requirement the most. There are some basic parameters for choosing the most appropriate load balancer software. There are also some hardware load balancers you can choose from. However, software load balancers are more cost-effective.
Before choosing a good load balancer you have to evaluate your server setup. The load balancer depends on the load you are facing on a daily basis. The load balancer you choose should be compatible with your set up. It should be able to distribute the incoming traffic to multiple servers. Here are some of the bast load balancers that are available to us.
Nginx
An open source, high-performance load balancer, Nginx is 80 percent less expensive as compared to hardware load balancers. Nginx provides high scalability almost instantly and you don't need to worry about the hardware scaling. Nginx is independent proprietary hardware and can be deployed on cloud as well as bare metal servers. Nginx can be integrated easily with any type of hardware and you don't need to modify your hardware according to it.
For more news on Nginx, please click on http://nginx.org/
To take a free trial, visit https://www.nginx.com/solutions/adc/
Kemp Linux Load Balancing Solutions
Kemp Solutions provide Linux-based open-source load balancing solutions that you can deploy to manage load and enhance performance. However, Kemp also provides advanced load balancing solutions called KEMP LoadMaster at a nominal rate.
Some of its features include Web Application Firewall, IPSec Tunneling, Application Layer balancing, use of multiple load balancing algorithms.
Please visit the website to know more.
https://kemptechnologies.com/in/solutions/linux-solutions/
HA Proxy
As the name suggests, HA Proxy(High Availability) provides high availability solutions for numerous websites. It acts as load balancer as well as a proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications. HA proxy has become the pick for load balancing solutions of many websites as it is best suited for high traffic environment. HA -Proxy is integrated with various Linux distributions and deployed with cloud platforms as well. It can be integrated very easily with any hardware architecture with little or no modification required.
The latest version of HA-Proxy is version 1.8 which was released on 2nd June 2017 and is in the development stage. The latest stable version of HA-Proxy is 1.7.
To know more, please click on the following link.
http://www.haproxy.org/
Linux Virtual Server
Running on the Linux operating system, the Linux virtual server provides load balancing solutions to a cluster of servers for high availability and easy scalability. The Linux virtual server is an open source load balancer released under the GNU license. It can be used to build high-performance network services such as mail, FTP among others.
The Linux virtual server load balancing techniques ensure that the cluster of server seems as a single server and the user and all the load balancing solutions are taken by it.
To know more about the Linux Virtual Server, please visit
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
Seesaw
It is a Linux-based Virtual Server load balancing platform developed by Google Site Reliability Engineers. It is developed in Go language and can support anycast and direct server return. Easy in management and handling, Seesaw is capable of performing health checks against backends.
Seesaw was aimed to provide vendor independent load balancing solutions so that it could be used universally. It is available at Apache 2.0 license and the latest version is v2.
To know more about Seesaw please visit the below link.
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalable-and-robust-load.html
