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Are there any open source load balancing solutions like what Amazon ELB does? Say, install the load balancer on to one or two Amazon VPS, proxy traffic to third
by cygwin98 13y ago
Are there any open source load balancing solutions like what Amazon ELB does? Say, install the load balancer on to one or two Amazon VPS, proxy traffic to third party VPS/dedicated servers, Linode, OVH, etc. Wonder how feasible this approach is?
- zorked 13y agoAmong different datacenters this is done most often in DNS in order to avoid the increased latency and singe-point-of-failure.
- jmccree 13y agoIt's not about the load balancing software itself, say HAProxy or Nginx, but with ELB AWS autoscales and handles failover between availability zones. You could certainly handle spinning up your own LB instances, managing DNS/Elastic IPs to handle failovers, etc. It would be far more expensive in setup time, management time and EC2 bill, than ELB which is practically free, starting at less than $20/month.