Web Architecture 101

Re:Web Architecture 101 by cs02rm0 on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:22AM (#17520884)

I've seen comments on this article elsewhere around load balancing not being needed until you're at scale, but do others not put it in quickly, not for volume, but for availability?

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Re:Web Architecture 101 by rubber_duck on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:00AM (#17521473)

Again - when you need something to be available you probably want someone who knows what he's doing from start setting it up.

Not saying you can't or shouldn't do it but it's not surprising that there's not a lot of newbie friendly tutorials for such things.

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Re:Web Architecture 101 by fgonzag on Sunday July 15, 2018 @02:56AM (#17534116)

Setting up HA LBs isn't hard though. Two load balanced IPS in your DNS hitting each external load balancer IP, LBs have keepalived configured with two floating VIPs each. I learnt that on the fly when having to build an HA service without the economic resources usually associated with doing so. ( Databases and routers/firewalls were a whole different beast though)

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