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How can i balance server traffic according to user's location

Posted on April 29, 2020

What i want to accomplish is to create 2 droplets, one based in america and the other based on europe for a single web page. so when people go to <mysite.com > they connect to the closest server. I’m planning to use apache



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Hi there @dalai2123,

You could either try using a CDN service like Cloudflare and set up some rules there. Or another thing that you could do is have a load balancer like HAProxy and set it up with GeoIP Database to do the load balancing for you.

You can take a look at the official documentation here:

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/use-geoip-database-within-haproxy/

Regards, Bobby

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