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<h2 id="_modules_balancers">Modules: Balancers</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>These Cherokee modules allow to balance the load among several
servers. Cherokee is completely modular, and thus a distinction must
be made clear.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Balancer modules only implement the balancing strategy. To actually
use one of these strategies you will need to select a
<a href="modules_handlers.html">handler</a> that makes use of balancers in the
<a href="other_bundle_cherokee-admin.html">cherokee-admin</a> interface.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>These handlers can be chosen within the
<tt>Handler</tt> tab of the <a href="config_virtual_servers_rule.html">Rule
Options</a> section.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Every balancing strategy is used to manage one or more
<a href="config_info_sources.html">information sources</a>, so at least one
has to be added to the pool managed by the balancer. To do this,
simply choose among the available sources in the <tt>Assign Info
Sources</tt>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This is the list of currently supported balancing strategies:</p></div>
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<a href="modules_balancers_round_robin.html">Round Robin</a>
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<a href="modules_balancers_ip_hash.html">IP Hash</a>
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<a href="modules_balancers_failover.html">Failover</a>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>And these are the handlers that use balancing:</p></div>
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<a href="modules_handlers_proxy.html">Reverse HTTP Proxy</a>
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<a href="modules_handlers_fcgi.html">FastCGI</a>
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<a href="modules_handlers_scgi.html">SCGI</a>
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<a href="modules_handlers_uwsgi.html">uWSGI</a>
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<a href="modules_handlers_dbslayer.html">MySQL bridge</a>
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