On second thought: the LAMP role is probably meant to be used that way. Probably DNS round robin with a low latency ?
Hopefully someone from scalr will confirm. Srini Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -----Original Message----- From: RichBos <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 07:20:43 To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Nginx balancer required for x2 LAMP farm? Thank you Srini, and yes, that would be as I suspected, it was the advisory to the contrary in the Scalr wiki which sent me off track. But you never know, there may have been some Nginx Scalr magic baked into the LAMP roles I was unaware of, it's usually best just to ask the question. Richard On Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:10:28 UTC, Srini wrote: > > Nginx or another load balancer would be needed. > > Srini > Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone > ------------------------------ > *From: * RichBos <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Sender: * [email protected] <javascript:> > *Date: *Thu, 3 Jan 2013 06:54:23 -0800 (PST) > *To: *<[email protected] <javascript:>> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject: *Nginx balancer required for x2 LAMP farm? > > Hi, I'm just wondering if an Nginx load balancer is required for a x2 role > LAMP Farm? (As it would be using x2 App instances). I would expect so but > the Wiki documentation says no. However as I understand it wouldn't the DNS > be better pointed at the Nginx LB rather than the LAMP (app) 'role'? I'm > only thinking so as if not how would (web/app) traffic be distributed > evenly between the x2 LAMP instances? Or have I misunderstood things? > > http://wiki.scalr.com/display/docs/Mixed+images+-+LAMP > > Any advice appreciated. > > Richard. > > -- > > > --
