FTP Load Balancer on EC2

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Published on 2010-05-06T19:47:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 19:48 UTC
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I need an EC2 instance to balance all incoming FTP connections to a list of FTP servers (EC2 instances too). This list will be changed dynamically due to the load of the FTP servers (launch a new FTP server when the FTP servers are overloaded or shutdown a FTP server when the load is low).

What you recommend? a FTP proxy? DNS server? Load balancer?

Note: The FTP servers must support Passive Mode

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