Load balancing two web servers with ultra monkey

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Published on 2010-04-22T10:33:53Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 10:43 UTC
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Hello,

In 2006 a company I was working with setup two load balancers to balance traffic between two web servers. We used ultra monkey to do so.

I'm hoping to do the same now.

My question:

Would anyone recommend using ultra monkey to balance traffic between two linux boxes running apache?
Are there other linux-based alternatives which have since proven to be better for this task?
Would you still install debian sarge on a load balancer given it's age?

Thanks everyone!

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