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Multi-Region High Availability
Right now I am setup in the NYC1 region. I am looking at how to mitigate some of the issues we have been experiencing in this region over the past month.
What options are there to host a load balanced web server(s) in two regions (NYC and SFO for example)? Do we have to use an external LB for this?
What option do we have to have a master-master type clustered database in two different regions?
What are others doing on DO to have high availability? I do not care as much about load balancing our services between two data centers, what we do want is ideally automatic failover from primary region to a backup/secondary region. So if we are experiencing issues with the NYC1 region we could manually or automatically failover to serving out of the SFO region.
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We have our solution set up in multiple regions for high availability reasons.
I too am curious how other set up High Availability in DO? I see some big names in the list of DO customers and I cannot imagine they don’t have solid HA solutions.
I might be old school, but I believe HA requires distribution across data centers to minimize risk of a location specific issue bringing down a solution, but maybe DO has solid isolation even within the same data center?
For me, the biggest challenges are the lack of private networks across data centers and the lack of a load balancer that works across data centers.