This project is based on educational purpose to demonstrate load balancing.

This project is simple enough and easy to setup to enable a novice to practice several Nginx configurations and see the application's comportement change. Make sure you have a system with 4 CPU cores at least! Otherwise your computer could freeze the time to process all of your requests.

1. Download project

• git clone https://github.com/lpelleau/load-balancing.git
• cd load-balancing

2. Install and launch the project

• npm install
• node app.js 0 // bind to port 3000
• node app.js 1 // bind to port 3001
• node app.js 2 // bind to port 3002

3. Configure Nginx

• sudo cp load-balancing3.ngx /etc/nginx/sites-available/
• sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/load-balancing3.ngx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/load-balancing

4. Reload Nginx configuration

• sudo service nginx reload

Go to http://localhost/ with your favorite browser.
Send small requests to see servers changes.
Send big requests to see CPU charge distribued with htop.

This project use:

• Nginx
• npm
• Node.js
• Expressjs
• Jade
• Materiazecss

If this project interessed you, feel free to contact me at [email protected]!

This projectis under MIT license.