By synik4l
Was reading over the nginx load balancing tutorial. And was just wondering, say I have 3 VPS’s and they are all serving pages. and I wanted to load balance the 3. Would I have to get another VPS to act as the controller/load balancer itself? Or can I throw nginx on one of those original 3 vps’s. And use that 1, to do both load balancing and serve pages?
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What should the size of a load balancer be? Is there a ‘rule of thumb’ or best practice you should use when selecting specs for the load balancer?
@marko.korhonen: You can choose any kind of droplet you want, whatever you prefer :]
Is there any recommendations what kind of droplet should be the load balancer vs. the web server ?
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