Load Balancing Strategies

The cluster focuses on discussions about load balancers like HAProxy, their use for health checks, high availability, routing, and comparisons to cloud provider solutions or alternatives.

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pjmlp Nov 6, 2025 View on HN

Well, load balancers are an option.

moonbug Aug 29, 2018 View on HN

So you use the load-balancing service. That's what it's for.

amouat Oct 23, 2015 View on HN

Hmm, I'll answer my own question - you mean has a load-balancer built in, don't you?

adgasf Feb 13, 2020 View on HN

Aren't most people running a load-balancer in front nowadays?

brazzledazzle Dec 19, 2016 View on HN

HAProxy does health checks. Might not be worth adding that inline for your needs but it does a good job of load balancing.

iostream23 Dec 3, 2021 View on HN

Use HAProxy, this is what it is designed for.

Random_ernest May 7, 2020 View on HN

I am not a webdev, but isn't that a task for the loadbalancer in the first place?

mekster Mar 14, 2020 View on HN

Maybe just run your own instance as a load balancer?

joevandyk Jun 9, 2018 View on HN

Seems simpler to do this at the load balancer level. That way you can use the same strategy for any type of application.

ec109685 Nov 25, 2022 View on HN

They likely have layer 7 load balancing sending different paths to different servers.