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my client is using Magento for it's ecommerce global solution. Main country are US / EU / CN. For now only 1 VM in Italy, serving all traffic.

I would like to create 3 VMs, one for each country, on AWS or Google Cloud, not important at this stage.

maine DNS 1.2.3.4 should point to a www.mydomain.it , where 1.2.3.4 it's a nginx VM (in europe datacenter) configured with MaxMind GeoIP module.

this becouse website has multiple languages and multiple catalog/prices/qty for each country and with nginx i can pass necessary headers and variable to Magento so the cms knows wich language to show to customers from different countries.

My question is: when traffic will hit nginx vm, and it will proxy_pass to eg US server, will the US server actually serve US traffic, or US traffic will flow always via nginx VM so it will lag and slow down?

My goal is to just forward traffic to correspondin VM based on visitor country, so this VM will serve traffic and not the nginx VM

i have activated a HTTPS loadbalancer on GCP, with SSL certificate. On fronted i have specified HTTPS/443 as listening protocol and HTTP to comunication with backend.

https it working nicely, but loadbalancer also accept http/80 connection resulting in a 404 page.

Is there any way to forward http to https directly from loadbalancer?

thank you