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I can use a droplet to be configured as a load balancer for external web servers?

Posted December 1, 2015 11.2k views
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I had two VPS from another hosting company and i would like to set a droplet and configure this droplet to be a load balancer for these two external VPS

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ryanpq December 1, 2015

Yes. This should not present a problem. Regardless of the location of the machines behind your load balancer you would just specify them by their IP. We have a whole section of tutorials on setting up load balancing solutions. I’d recommend starting there.

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