On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Gregg Cranshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am in the middle of a project where I have to setup a couple of load > balancers to allow load balancing traffic to some web app servers and to > provide an easy way to swap out some other resources. I have spent a lot of > time researching options and I settled on HAProxy with Keepalived to make > it fault tolerant. > > I have read through the HAProxy configuration options page as best I could > and I have the basic setup of HAProxy for a web server. I also setup the > stats option on the server. Do you have any tips or resources on what best > practices are for the haproxy.cfg file? Most options I find are basic with > the front and back end setup, the binding IP, the server list, and the > method used for load balancing. Is there anything else I should add to that > basic configuration? Is there an easy way to tell what the connection > counts should be? Any info would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks for your time. > > Regards > > > > [image: signatureSeal]Gregg Cranshaw > > *Senior Network Engineer* > > RI Department of State | Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea > > Email: g <[email protected]>[email protected] | Website: > www.sos.ri.gov | Twitter: @RISecState <https://twitter.com/RISecState> > > 148 W. River Street, Providence RI 02904 | 401-222-1326 > > > > *Our Mission: *The Rhode Island Department of State engages and empowers > all Rhode Islanders by making government more accessible and transparent, > encouraging civic pride, enhancing commerce and ensuring that elections are > fair, fast and accurate. > Don't forget the following points: - setup proper timeouts (enable slow post protection) - configure an accurate health check - enable the stats page Baptiste
