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Will HAProxy run properly on a lowend VPS?
Hey guys,
I've decided to use HAProxy for my "HA cluster" thingamajig, so I'd like to know whether HAProxy will run well on an extremely lowend VPS (256MB RAM, up to 1 CPU core burst for 60 minutes). I've heard that it's more CPU intensive than RAM intensive, but not sure if that's true.
I've also been looking at ZenLoadBalancer, if any of you have experience with that, please share 
Thanks!
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I don't know about 256MB, but I have a few clients who run haproxy on my 512MB / 1 core plan and it doesn't seem like they have any problems.
Hm, interesting. Thanks for the advice
This depends entirely on the traffic you're pushing. If it's low 256MB might be enough, though I would recommend more. Furthermore if anything less than 1GB RAM works for you, 1 CPU core will too.
ZenLoadBalancer Any good? I've never tried it. HAPROXY has been great for my development and testing purposes.
mine even running on 128MB VPS (low traffic)
Seen a few low traffic ones run on 128/256mb's.
:O Cool! I have 2x 256MB nodes for HAproxy so I hope it'll work well
ZLB is pretty neat, it comes with a really slick web interface for you to manage stuff with. AFAIK, HAProxy only comes with a web stats interface.
Hm, thanks