Ask HN: What are the cheap options for reliable load balancing?

Re:Ask HN: What are the cheap options for reliable load bala... by IgorPartola on Thursday November 21, 2013 @10:52AM (#6775252)

Nginx. It is able to load balance HTTP/HTTPS servers in a reverse-proxy mode and lets you use the common strategies for choosing the upstream server. See for example https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-u....

Other options too look at are, HAProxy (level 4 or 7 load balancing) and Varnish.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the cheap options for reliable load bala... by embro on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:07AM (#6775355)

Thanks for the input!

I agree Nginx does it and does it well. I've look at this option, getting another VPS and setup load balancing on it. The only things that worry me is having only one front-end.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the cheap options for reliable load bala... by ozzzy on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:10AM (#6775378)

As I mentioned in another comment DNS load balancing prevents having only one front-end.

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