[clue] load-balancing

[Ryan Naef]

David,

While I do not profess to be an HAProxy expert, we have used it to check most of the boxes on your list in the past. 

You can use the weight parameter on your backend servers to specify where the traffic is preferred – a value of 256 for your primary and 1 as your failover should accomplish what you are looking for. 

You can also write IP based ACL’s to set traffic from each network to specific backends. 

 

There are some limitations – HAProxy will only support TCP, and I have had issues with some ssl. 

 

Regards,
Ryan Naef



 

From: clue-bounces at cluedenver.org [mailto:clue-bounces at cluedenver.org] On Behalf Of David L. Willson
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 7:43 AM
To: CLUE's mailing list
Subject: [clue] load-balancing

 

I am looking for an intelligent load-balancer. It needs to understand proximity / preference. I want to be able to send all the clients from (these networks) to this node, unless it's down, or fully-loaded, or otherwise uninterested in new connections, then send them to this node, instead.

I don't mind if I have to setup the preference rules (which networks prefer which servers), but it would be cool if I didn't have to.

 

I'd *strongly* prefer a solution that doesn't generate vendor lock-in. ie: I don't mind paying for it, but I'd like to preserve the freedom to choose *who* to pay.

 

It would be really great if someone that has a lot of experience with HAProxy confidently said something like, "Oh yeah, it does all that. Just do this and this, and that, and it works great, lasts a long time, and you'll lose weight doing it."

 

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