Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
Hi,
I'm considering geographically loadbalancing a website (where people
order stuff) in case our ISP has a big network problem for an hour. Is
this within HAProxy's scope?
A bit more context:
I'm told that anycast is the natural solution, but I find little on
the net (or in books) on this. (Though there's more info on geodns,
which I'm told is like a "poor man's anycast.")
I thought I could use a DNS server which polls server health (only
serving addresses that are up), but I'm told this is a bad idea for
reasons I don't yet grasp.
You'd probably be better off just going with DNS based load balancing.
haproxy would route all traffic through one location, which kills the
advantage to geographic balancing.
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Jeff Buchbinder
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Rave Wireless, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
