Hi guys, I was just wondering if it was possible to host 1 website off of multiple droplets and use load balancing to pick which droplet the user connects to?
Thanks in advance, Francis
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Yes, it’s possible. You can use a DNS service like Amazon Route 53 that routes the user to the nearest server.
If the servers are in the same location, you can use 1 droplet as a NFS server and mount that on all servers. You can do this even if the servers are not in the same place, but can become a huge problem. <br>There’s also different ways ( like syncing files on update with some custom made scripts - lsyncd is an example ) <br>Also, the sessions between the servers have to use a memcached server <br>
Thanks for your reply, but what I meant was how can you replicate the Apache configuration on both servers to display the same website (so when you update a website it updates across all servers) ? <br> <br>Thanks again, <br>Francis
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