Question
Clone droplet to create a 2 server cluster/file replication
- Posted on April 14, 2022
- ClusteringDigitalOcean Droplets
Asked by Liam Firth
I have a website running on Ubuntu 20.04 via Gridpane. The server is constantly overloaded (CPU) by product imports which need to be refreshed and reimported on a regular basis leading to poor use experience. My question here is; Is it possible to clone my droplet, spin up another droplet and cluster the servers together so one server serves traffic, and the other manages all the imports/calculation and batch processing?
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Hi @LiamFirth,
Yes, it’s possible to do that.
The cloning of the Droplet can be done using a snapshot :
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/snapshots/
Regarding the load balancing, you’ll need another Droplet which will have the role of a proxy. Haproxy is the obvious choice in my eyes as well. Additionally, you can separate your Database from your Droplet so that it has a dedicated space for itself.
I’ll recommend checking the Managed Databases product DigitalOcean offers here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases
Hello there,
Yes, you can spin up another droplet via snapshot from the current server and then use Haproxy for load balancing. You can have two web servers and one database server for example.
You can check our tutorial on An Introduction to HAProxy and Load Balancing Concepts
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-haproxy-and-load-balancing-concepts
Hope that this helps!
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