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In production, we use expensive hardware based load balancers, but our company doesn't want to spend the money on a hardware load balancer for QA load / performance testing. So I need to use a software based load balancing solution.We have several web based applications. For one application suite that's Java based and runs on JBoss, I have 3 application servers for one of our QA environments, and to load balance between them I set up a VM with Apache on it and used mod_jk to round robin. I'm not really concerned with having a high availability architechture here since it's a test system, so it's ok with me that the one Apache VM is the single point of failure here; I really only care about being able to distribute the load. So this worked fine for this one application suite, and wasn't too hard to set up.I have another application suite though that's developed by a 3rd party that we rebrand and test in-house, and it's a C# / ASP.NET application that runs on IIS. I'd like to do something similar and have a single VM with Apache and mod_jk that load balances between multiple application servers running IIS. I searched around and saw alot of info about using IIS to load balance Tomcat / JBoss apps, but didn't see anything with good info about using Apache to load balance ASP based apps that run on IIS.Does anyone know how to do this, or have a good reference where I can read about it?Or alternatively, does anyone know of a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?