Load balancing

[Dionisio Cortes Fernandez <bloodbrawl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I´ve been trying to make a load balanced Apache servet without all the success I wanted. I used this mods

proxy

proxy_balancer

proxy_http

status

And I get a main server that balances the load, to the other nodes, that it´s not at all, the solution I wanted.

                          ____________ 

                         |____weblb___|

                           |                  |

                           |                  |

                  _____|____    ____|______

                 |   web1     |    |      web2    |

                 |_________|    |__________|

I don´t really like the solution because as far as I know, all the web traffic is through weblb (because web1 and web2 only have one NIC and its in a internal network with weblb, and i see their pages), and I wanted weblb only to distribute the petitions, and later web1 and web2 act as normal servers, so for example, half of user will use web1, and the other half web2, but they only know one ip address (weblb). I know this should be possible as facebook or google or that big companies uses lots of machines and you only know one domain, and I don´t think they use that schema, because only one server couldn´t have all throughput needed to all users.

So I don´t know if I´m trying with the wrong approach or there are any other modules that I can use to do what I want.

Thanks