Load balancing with node.js using http-proxy

Question

I\'m trying to code a loadbalancing with node.js and http-proxy. I want a loadBalancer which share incoming request treatment between 2 servers.

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Answer 1

That should be doing a round robin as you requested, however it's a very naive round robin. What you may be seeing is that your favicon.ico requests are putting a higher than normal share of requests on a single server. For instance.

Server 1: Actual Requests
Server 2: favicon.ico
Server 1: Another Request
Server 2: favicon.ico
Server 1: Final Request
Server 2: favicon.ico

So depending on how you're logging, it will appear that server 1 is getting all of the requests, when technically each server is getting the same number of requests. Also keep in mind that your assets will be included in the round robin as well if you're serving them from node. So each image or file request will also be handed off to a different node instance.