Also, I would consider setting maxconn appropriately to be critical. You want it high enough to handle your peaks/spikes, but not so high as to consume all resources available on the machine.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Baptiste <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > -- Jeff Palmer https://PalmerIT.net
