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Re:Introducing HTTP Load Balancing and SSD Persistent Disk by chatmasta on Monday June 16, 2014 @12:02PM (#7899717)
Exciting developments on the load balancing front. Is anyone able to decipher whether this can be used to load balance external (non-google) services? It looks like the input parameter is simply an external IP, but I haven't looked that closely yet.
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Re:Introducing HTTP Load Balancing and SSD Persistent Disk by dmytton on Monday June 16, 2014 @12:29PM (#7899898)
It's routing traffic to a pool of Compute Engine instances: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/ht...
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Re:Introducing HTTP Load Balancing and SSD Persistent Disk by _up on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:27PM (#7901286)
Could this be a huge problem for services like Cloudflare. I mean i would trust Google a lot more to be able to survive a huge DDOS.
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