# Load balancing algorithms

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/load-balancing-algorithms/190310>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/load-balancing-algorithms/190310 "2010-06-17T16:22:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steux)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/load-balancing-algorithms/190310/1 "2010-06-17T16:22:46Z")

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Hi everyone!  
As load balancer for other phisical back-end servers, does nginx  
provides a  
algorithm other than simple round-robin?

## regards,

Bruno Guimarães Sousa  
www.ifba.edu.br  
PONTONET - DGTI - IFBA  
Ciência da Computação UFBA  
Registered Linux user #465914

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**Author:** ![steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steux)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/load-balancing-algorithms/190310/2 "2010-06-17T16:27:02Z")

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> Hi everyone!  
> As load balancer for other phisical back-end servers, does nginx provides  
> a  
> algorithm other than simple round-robin?

Yes

> **[GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki...](https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-wiki)**
>
> ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com

> **[GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki...](https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-wiki)**
>
> ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com

> **[GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki...](https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-wiki)**
>
> ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com

EY Balancer Module [http://github.com/ry/nginx-ey-balancer/tree/master](http://github.com/ry/nginx-ey-balancer/tree/master)

rr

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**Author:** ![steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@steux](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steux)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/load-balancing-algorithms/190310/3 "2010-06-17T16:35:19Z")

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2010/6/16 Reinis R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> > Hi everyone!  
> > As load balancer for other phisical back-end servers, does nginx provides  
> > a  
> > algorithm other than simple round-robin?
> 
> Yes  
> [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamFairModule)  
> [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModule)  
> [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamConsistentHash)  
> EY Balancer Module  [http://github.com/ry/nginx-ey-balancer/tree/master](http://github.com/ry/nginx-ey-balancer/tree/master)  
> And there is also [Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/nginx-upstream-carp/)