load balancing

[mrhankey]

hi,

what can i install in cpanel to easily setup load balancing between my other cpanel server?

haproxy or is there a way i can setup this in cpanel with easy configuring?

thanks again

[NetMantis]

Yes, it can be done with haproxy

(I know this because I have actually done it before using haproxy but it's not an easy setup)

Generally speaking, Cpanel doesn't support load balancing in and of itself so you will need the haproxy.

[mrhankey]

thanks, so what you recommend using? or is haproxy the best?

i am looking for the easiest way to do it.

is memcached the same thing as haproxy?

many thanks

[mrhankey]

ok so how does it work, does haproxy sync your files in real time amongst the servers?

i have tried googling but not much is coming up.

basically if a users uploads a photo to say server 2 and then someone wants to view that photo who is on server 1, does haproxy sync all files setup in real time or do i need some other software?

many thanks

[garconcn]

ok so how does it work, does haproxy sync your files in real time amongst the servers?

i have tried googling but not much is coming up.

basically if a users uploads a photo to say server 2 and then someone wants to view that photo who is on server 1, does haproxy sync all files setup in real time or do i need some other software?

many thanks

I doubt haproxy will sync files for you. You may need to use other way to sync the files between two servers. I use Rsync + LVS for load balancing on two cPanel servers.

[milesgeek]

If you want to sync files, you either use rsync OR mount the drives using NFS. Yes, I have used haproxy and it works properly for apache on cPanel server. You can use rsync OR NFS depending on how often the data gets updated.

[jasonhk]

What about using GlusterFS to sync files between the nodes and HaProxy or LiteSpeed Load Balancer.

Gluster.org Community Website | GlusterFS is a cluster file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
LiteSpeed Load Balancer