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That config looks like it kills the site if there are 2 or fewer back-end servers (similar to the setup in the article). Wouldn't it make more sense simply to
by wrkronmiller 6y ago
That config looks like it kills the site if there are 2 or fewer back-end servers (similar to the setup in the article).
Wouldn't it make more sense simply to limit the number of connections per back-end server?
- ciprian_craciun 6y agoIndeed if I were to configure the load-balancer I would limit both the number of concurrent requests and the number of queued requests. (In fact this is what I do in my HAProxy deployments.) However I assume that the customer (the original author was referring to) didn't want to apply any limitations. (Why is beyond my reasoning...)