Daily Archives: November 13th, 2006

HA EC2 Part #2: Load Balancing the Load Balancer

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Lets first address the problem of the dynamic IP address on the load balancer, because it doesn’t matter how good your EC2-side setup is if your clients can no longer reach your load balancer after a reboot. Also complicated because normally you want two load balancers to act as a fail-over pair in case one [...]

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HA EC2 Part #1: Identifying the Challenges

Monday, November 13th, 2006

I was recently asked to look into load balancing web servers on the Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing Service (EC2). And managing this presents some very interesting problems which need to be worked around. To look at the subject I’ll break it into 3 distinct pieces. #1: Identifying the Challenges (Which you’re currently reading), #2: Load [...]

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