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Jeff
Asked: 2010-11-23 14:48:32 +0800 CST

VPS as a load balancer?

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a VPS as a load balancer?

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  1. Best Answer

    A few advantages:

    • cheap or free depending on your current setup
    • familiar operating system so managing/monitoring will come fairly easy
    • performance can be decent for moderate load levels
    • leverages existing virtualization environment, and any HA therein

    A few disadvantages:

    • likely no commercial support
    • for high-load environments, VPSes won't hold a candle to "real" hardware-based load balancers
    • VPSes will be less stable than hardware load balancers
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