http://simonwillison.net/2007-12-09T14:57:44+00:00Simon Willison2007-12-09T14:57:44+00:002007-12-09T14:57:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/9/fair/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel">A Fair Proxy Balancer for Nginx and Mongrel</a></strong></p> nginx uses round robin for proxying by default; this extension module ensures requests are queued up and sent through to backend mongrel servers that aren’t currently busy. I don’t see any reason this wouldn’t work with servers other than mongrel. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fair">fair</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/load-balancing">load-balancing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mongrel">mongrel</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nginx">nginx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/proxies">proxies</a></p>