Load balancing

Load balancing in NodeJs and Express

Algorithms

1. Round Robin
2. Least Connections

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

You need to install node in your system. Download it from here.

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get the web application running

Clone the repo and enter inside the directory

$ git clone https://github.com/leonatwork/load-balancing.git
$ cd load-balancing

Install all npm modules

$ npm install

Running the node app

To run the round robin version

   $ node server-rr.js

• The app should be up and running at localhost:8080
• The Round Robin server listens at port 8080, and three other servers run at ports 3000,3001 and 3002

To run least connection version

   $ node server-lc.js

• The app should be up and running at localhost:8081
• The Least Connection server listens at port 8081, and three other servers run at ports 4000,4001 and 4002

Built With

• HTML
• Javascript
• CSS/bootstrap
• NodeJs
• Express