[clue] Cluster load balancing.

[Chris Fedde]

Will a tiny VPS work?  I have 128M/5G/250G from Front Range Hosting for
 $2/mo.

DNS round robin is about as reliable as any global load balancing scheme.
 The main technical problem is that you cannot control client caching.  So
that means multiple A record responses are needed. And that means that you
don't have anything like fine control over where traffic goes.

I'll happily donate an RPI in my basement to the cause, or chip in to
buy additional cheap VPS services.


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> Basement hosting has been mentioned in the past for providing the services
> our VPS provides.  I
> haven't heard anything better than round robin DNS for load balancing,
> which seems a little fragile
> to me.
>
> But maybe this fits the bill: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/lbcd/
>
> (Probably not, but it might be an example of how to do it if different
> measurements were made.)
>
> Dave
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