I have been asked by my professor at university to demonstrate how load balancing happens on the cloud. Like, for example, what kind of tools are used to do it.
I have looked at some like nginx, Pen etc, but running them on my laptop to demonstrate load balancing is a little far fetched. I have also looked at the Google App Engine, which seems feasible, but it load balances automatically.
Is there another way I can demonstrate this?
EDIT: I’m looking at Open-Source software only, I can’t pay a fee to use it.
have you considered amazon ?
also
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadbalancers/
Does this help?
http://askville.amazon.com/open-source-load-balancer-software-run-Linux/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=7650176