# Nginx fair proxy balancer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-fair-proxy-balancer/134208>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 8, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-fair-proxy-balancer/134208 "2008-04-08T21:35:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jshow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jshow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jshow)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-fair-proxy-balancer/134208/1 "2008-04-08T21:35:41Z")

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greetings,

[http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel](http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel)

I haven’t seen any news on this since November. Is the code base  
supported? any new releases?

There were some questions asked on that post that were left unanswered  
so am assuming the worst.

(ezra, tried to reply on that post, but your blog error’ed out)

thanx,  
Jodi

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**Author:** ![jshow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jshow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jshow)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-fair-proxy-balancer/134208/2 "2008-04-08T22:26:23Z")

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On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Jodi wrote:

> (ezra, tried to reply on that post, but your blog error’ed out)
> 
> thanx,  
> Jodi

The upstream fair module is now stable and very usable. You can get  
the latest here:

> **[GitHub - gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair: The fair load balancer module for nginx](https://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair/tree/master)**
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> master

Here is some recent benchmarking and testing of the fair module:

[http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/](http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/)

It had a few spurts of unstableness but we have ironed out all the  
issues and it is good to go now.

Cheers-

- Ezra Z.  
– Founder & Software Architect  
– removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
– [EngineYard.com](http://EngineYard.com)

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**Author:** ![jshow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jshow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jshow)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-fair-proxy-balancer/134208/3 "2008-04-08T22:37:33Z")

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On 8-Apr-08, at 4:25 PM, Ezra Z. wrote:

> > 
> 
> The upstream fair module is now stable and very usable. You can get

thanks a bunch Ezra.

J