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Set Up Nginx Load Balancing

About Load Balancing Loadbalancing is a useful mechanism to distribute incoming traffic around several capable Virtual Private servers. By apportioning the processing mechanism to several machines, redundancy is provided to the application -- ensuring fault tolerance and heightened stability. The Round Robin algorithm for load balancing sends visitors to one of a set of IPs. At its most basic level Round Robin, which is fairly easy to implement, distributes server load without implementing considering more nuanced factors like server response time and the visitors’ geographic region. Setup The steps in this tutorial require the user to have root privileges on your VPS. Prior to setting up nginx loadbalancing, you should have nginx installed on your VPS. You can install it quickly with apt-get: sudo apt-get install nginx Upstream Module In order to set up a round robin load balancer, we will need to use the nginx upstream module. We will incorporate the conf