Load Balancing

What is Load Balancing?

This feature, when enabled, gives you a platform to enter all those server addresses across whom, the load of requests are going to be evenly distributed, thus providing seamless horizontal scalability. The miniOrange reverse proxy product sits right in front of the user’s servers and distributes the load amongst the server addresses provided by the user.

How does Load Balancing work?

Let’s see how this feature would work in a scenario where a massive number of requests are sent to the proxy link created by a user, who has enabled the Load Balancing feature:

• The requests are received by the reverse proxy server.
• Using an algorithm for load balancing, this server picks a user’s server per request.
• The selected server processes the request and returns an appropriate response to the request via the reverse proxy server.

In this way, the users can enable horizontal scaling of requests, thus, eliminating the possibility of crashing their server under unknown circumstances.

How to enable the Load Balancing?

Let’s see how we can enable the Load Balancing feature using the miniOrange Reverse Proxy Product. A user would want the requests’ load to be evenly distributed amongst his servers. To make this possible, the miniOrange reverse proxy product can be configured in the following manner:

• The user logs into the miniOrange Reverse Proxy Product.




• The user clicks on the “Proxy Settings” tab on the sidebar that directs him to the Proxy settings page. The “Proxy Settings” page has a “Add new proxy” button, clicking which, the user gets directed to a webpage where he gets to configure a new proxy link along with the features he wishes to enable.




• On the “Set Proxy” tab, the user enters the proxy link that he wishes to have for his server. Also, the user enters the server address of his server that will be pointed to by the aforementioned proxy link he entered.




• On the same page, the user selects the user switches to the “Load Balancing” feature’s tab. On that tab, the user is prompted to enter as many server addresses as he wants. The server addresses that the user inputs will be the ones that will share the load of requests with the server for which these settings are being configured. The user saves the configurations.




• If the user wants to edit the load balancing settings, he’ll just have to visit the “Load Balancing Settings” on the sidebar. The user has to click on the “Edit” button corresponding to the proxy URL for which he needs to edit the load balancing settings. After clicking, the user is directed to a page where he can add as many balancer members as he wants or remove as many of the existing balancer members as he wants.







These configurations are saved in the configuration file of the reverse proxy server.