load balancing of incoming http request

Hii friends, I am doing a project to balance the load of incoming http request and distributing it to one of the instance of the service running on that server.I am thinking of using a round robin algorithm for distributing the load.


Can u suggest means of goin' about.

Thanking you,
Prasad

 

You could use a load balancer such as HAProxy or Pound.
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-u...lancer-with-haproxy-heartbeat-on-debian-lenny
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-u...-with-haproxy-wackamole-spread-on-debian-etch
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-u...ancer-with-haproxy-keepalived-on-debian-lenny
http://www.howtoforge.com/high-availability-load-balancer-pound-keepalived-debian-etch

 

thanx for the help buddy....
but i need to build only the functionality of distributing loads on various instances of the servers and not go too deep in actually cheackin the servers for their health


plz do reply......

 

You can do this with HAProxy and Pound as well.

 

I actually need to develop 1 not to use any pre made software, so just want to implement the above mentioned procedure and not go too deep as with HAProxy and Pound