# Help required in Setting up FTP Load Balancer in NGINX-

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 21, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-required-in-setting-up-ftp-load-balancer-in-nginx/238625 "2014-01-21T07:57:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-required-in-setting-up-ftp-load-balancer-in-nginx/238625/1 "2014-01-21T07:57:14Z")

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I required help to configure FTP Load balancer in NGINX.

Can you all please help me with the necessary steps or any link which  
explains the same.

Note: My incoming FTP request will come in FTP protocol only. We cannot  
configure FTP –over HTTP in our application’

if NGINX is not supporting can you please suggest any load balancer  
which  
will server my purpose.

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> I required help to configure FTP Load balancer in NGINX. Can you all please help me with the necessary steps or any link which explains the same. Note: My incoming FTP request will come in FTP protocol only. We cannot configure FTP –over HTTP in our...

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-required-in-setting-up-ftp-load-balancer-in-nginx/238625/2 "2014-01-21T11:45:50Z")

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On 21 January 2014 06:56, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I required help to configure FTP Load balancer in NGINX.
> 
> Can you all please help me with the necessary steps or any link which  
> explains the same.
> 
> Note: My incoming FTP request will come in FTP protocol only. We cannot  
> configure FTP –over HTTP in our application’
> 
> if NGINX is not supporting can you please suggest any load balancer which  
> will server my purpose.

Wow - the dream of the 90s really _is_ alive in $WHEREVER\_YOU\_ARE! 😉

Seriously - it’s 2014. We have better alternatives than the insecure  
and awful mess that is FTP. Any company that thinks otherwise deserves  
all the pain that comes with FTP …

Anyway, Nginx doesn’t talk FTP to the best of my knowledge. Whilst I’d  
normally suggest a TCP load balancer for this, FTP has certain  
properties which make it annoying to load balance that you have to  
take into account.

This came up with after moment’s googling. It might help:  
[http://ben.timby.com/?page\_id=210](http://ben.timby.com/?page_id=210)

Jonathan