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DO Load Balancers launched
Don't know if it has been announced here already:
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/load-balancer/
Starting at 20 bucks / month...
Your thought?
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"Now available in all data center regions"
If only block storage was :-(
Well, it wouldn't be a LET thread if we didn't start with a complaint.
Nice feature...I assume this is some sort of HA F5-like experience where you can just "assume it will work" like the network itself. Abstracting HA is always nice so you don't have to solve that higher up the stack.
Linode has NodeBalancers...this leaves only Vultr as missing this feature now...
Now in theory one could offer this based on commodity hardware without the expense of buying fancy dedicated network gear...perhaps something a hungry young host will consider.
I've been spec'ing it out with some customers but it comes down to 'more featureful' or 'easy as a couple clicks to enable'.
Personally, the customers in question want all the power we provide (LB any type of traffic, etc).
Francisco
Pretty exciting. Obviously still cheaper, and potentially even easier (with SSL), to build your own LB out of a droplet. But this is something a lot of people were asking for.
But there's value to not having to deal with the scale of resource usage by the LB, and this will definitely be cheaper than rolling your own for some people.
Wouldn't a single droplet limit you to 100Mbps though? @jarland
Each droplet should have 1Gbps. At least I can get that speed on my droplets.
lowendspirit does this with HAProxy though it's not single click setup.
Each droplet will have access to 1Gbps at minimum. Many will have more... may even be that all have more, my memory is failing at the moment. (Taking time off, gets my head out of the game)
I thought they were at 100Mbps. Good to know!
Would be interesting what capicity their load-balancers have? More than 10gbps?
Fair question. I'll be sure to ask it once I get back in the swing of things.
My tests yesterday were showing that FRA and SFO2 have 10 Gbps, while all other locations seem to have 1 Gbps.