Manus, Yes, that would be a nice potential feature but... Surely you are a lot better off using an external GSLB capable resilient DNS i.e. In ascending price order:
Amazon Route 53 DYN Neustar Akami etc.? http://blog.loadbalancer.org/gslb-why-do-global-server-load-balancers-suck/ On 29 June 2014 15:46, Marius Jankunas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > First of all congrutalions for HAProxy 1.5.0 release, glad you finally > finished. :) > > > If you have some free time maybe could advise or give any hints which > could me? > I'm interested in HAProxy, and would like to know is it possible do load > balancing to servers which are nearest to clients? And even if yes, so > could this reduce latency, and improve e.g. website loading speed? I tried > to draw an datagram(see attachment) which shows how i would like to do load > balancing. > > About Datagram: > > Example there are 6 users: 2 from Asia, 2 from Europe, 2 from United > states. > All 6 users connecting to main haproxy server first, which stands in EU. > > For Asia users ping to main haproxy server is ~ 175ms > For Europe users ping to main haproxy server ~22ms > For United states users ping to main haproxy ~ 76ms > > Asia users to Haproxy (Asia) has ping of 15ms > Europe users to Haproxy (EU) has ping of ~17ms > United states users to Haproxy (US) has of ~12ms > > All 3 Haproxy (Asia),(EU),(US) servers has ping of +/-35ms to Application > Server. > > I don't know, but feeling this only would great only additional latency > for users. If yes, how we can make users connect direct to (Asia),(EU),(US) > Haproxy server by their geo location? Thank you for any reply. > > > Marius, > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on > your desktop! > Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium > -- Regards, Malcolm Turnbull. Loadbalancer.org Ltd. Phone: +44 (0)330 1604540 http://www.loadbalancer.org/
