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0 pointspdimitar1y ago0 comments

Ah, I meant use your hosting provider's load balancer + use their VPS-es. I think Digital Ocean allows this, AWS and GCP as well.

That way you're outsourcing the problem of "but what if the load balancer itself falls down?".

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XCSme1y ago

I usually want to load-balance between different hosting providers (so if AWS goes down, I still have DO running). From what I've seen, most of them only provide load-balancing within their local networks.

pdimitarOP1y ago

Hmmmm... Cloudflare then?

XCSme1y ago

That's a good idea, I was considering it, looked at their pricing, but was too expensive.

Also, I'm starting to dislike having everything go through Cloudflare (all my DNS). I don't dislike the company, I just don't like one entity controlling the entire internet. I don't want even more vendor-lock-in tbh.

I'm gravitating towards the failover solution, to have a VPS do health-checks on my services, if one goes down, use the Cloudflare API to update the DNS entries to the backup servers.

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0 pointspdimitar1y ago0 comments

Ah, I meant use your hosting provider's load balancer + use their VPS-es. I think Digital Ocean allows this, AWS and GCP as well.

That way you're outsourcing the problem of "but what if the load balancer itself falls down?".

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XCSme1y ago

pdimitarOP1y ago

Hmmmm... Cloudflare then?

XCSme1y ago

That's a good idea, I was considering it, looked at their pricing, but was too expensive.

I'm gravitating towards the failover solution, to have a VPS do health-checks on my services, if one goes down, use the Cloudflare API to update the DNS entries to the backup servers.

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