Guides tagged “load balancer”
Step-by-step MdmHost guides about load balancer, sorted A-Z.
4 guides
Autoscaling explained: scale servers up, down and out
How autoscaling works in the cloud: vertical vs horizontal scaling, scaling metrics and policies, stateless app design, load balancers, cooldowns and how VPS users can scale without it.
Forward proxy vs reverse proxy vs load balancer
The difference between a forward proxy, a reverse proxy and a load balancer, what each is used for, real examples like Squid, Nginx, HAProxy and Cloudflare, and how they combine.
Server high availability basics: redundancy, failover and clustering
What high availability means for servers, single points of failure, active-passive vs active-active, floating IPs with keepalived, database replication and when HA is worth the cost.
Set up an HAProxy load balancer for web servers
What a load balancer does, common balancing algorithms, and how to install HAProxy on Linux to spread HTTP traffic across two web servers with health checks and HTTPS.
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