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Random balancing only works with homogenous servers.

• ec109685 9y ago
  You can weight them.
• randerson 9y ago
  Isn't it almost always advisable to have homogenous servers in a web farm? What are some example cases there that doesn't make sense?
  • sethammons 9y ago
    I'm on mobile, so won't look for the source. I heard Netflix benchmarks each new instance bootstrapped in AWS because they have found a dramatically high level of variability in performance from what should be home get out hardware. They toss out low performers and rebootstrap the instance.
  • zepolen 9y ago
    Containerization and spot instances.