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what was the use case when they wanted you to have a load balancer for a single server..?
by evanscottgray 10y ago
what was the use case when they wanted you to have a load balancer for a single server..?
- alanpost 10y agoI was told it was to avoid changing my DNS when I spun up a new server. With the load balancer being $50/month; that was the pitch that put me off Rackspace.
- leesalminen 10y agoThe LB itself (in IAD) is $10.95/month + traffic.
- colinramsay 10y agoThis was exactly it.
- crucialfelix 10y agoI've gotten the same recommendation from them. I complained because they pulled the network connection on the drive connected to the database and completely torched the drive. They were like: well maybe you should consider running multiple database machines with replication so you can survive the next time we screw things up.
- aianus 10y agoThis is true for all VPS hosting. They're cheap because they're commodity hardware that sometimes fails.
- tinix 10y agoI don't know about the poster above, but commonly load balancers can be used to do SSL termination, which can significantly improve application performance.