i'm not sure if that works in my situation -- i am balancing database servers on an internal network and connection failures are inconvenient. is the suggestion to use the health check to take the server out of circulation, at least temporarily? in this case it is not load balancing as much as load limiting, correct?
b On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, David Birdsong <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a lot of haproxy users employ the use of intelligent health > checks. A health check could be a php,python...whatever script that > can assess current load and return a 204 or 503..(or some other > appropriate down http response.) > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi -- Haven't heard a response to this message and wondering if it got >> bounced or something. >> >> Ben >> >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello -- >>> >>> Are there any provisions for distributing connections according to >>> external metrics, e.g. load as reported by uptime or other utilities? >>> Obviously this would have some scalability issues but I'm struggling >>> with a way to balance between database servers on heterogenous >>> hardware. >>> >>> Best regards, Ben >>> >> >> >
