Maybe so, but yes, it would be good to clarify. I've used a t1.micro for the project in question anyway, for the price it's no huge overhead (and we can easily remove it later).
Richard. On Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:26:40 UTC, Srini wrote: > > On second thought: the LAMP role is probably meant to be used that way. > Probably DNS round robin with a low latency ? > > Hopefully someone from scalr will confirm. > Srini > Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone > ------------------------------ > *From: * RichBos <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Date: *Thu, 3 Jan 2013 07:20:43 -0800 (PST) > *To: *<[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Cc: *<[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Subject: *Re: Nginx balancer required for x2 LAMP farm? > > Thank you Srini, and yes, that would be as I suspected, it was the > advisory to the contrary in the Scalr wiki which sent me off track. > > But you never know, there may have been some Nginx Scalr magic baked into > the LAMP roles I was unaware of, it's usually best just to ask the question. > > Richard > > > > On Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:10:28 UTC, Srini wrote: >> >> Nginx or another load balancer would be needed. >> >> Srini >> Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone >> ------------------------------ >> *From: * RichBos <[email protected]> >> *Sender: * [email protected] >> *Date: *Thu, 3 Jan 2013 06:54:23 -0800 (PST) >> *To: *<[email protected]> >> *ReplyTo: * [email protected] >> *Subject: *Nginx balancer required for x2 LAMP farm? >> >> Hi, I'm just wondering if an Nginx load balancer is required for a x2 >> role LAMP Farm? (As it would be using x2 App instances). I would expect so >> but the Wiki documentation says no. However as I understand it wouldn't the >> DNS be better pointed at the Nginx LB rather than the LAMP (app) 'role'? >> I'm only thinking so as if not how would (web/app) traffic be distributed >> evenly between the x2 LAMP instances? Or have I misunderstood things? >> >> http://wiki.scalr.com/display/docs/Mixed+images+-+LAMP >> >> Any advice appreciated. >> >> Richard. >> >> -- >> >> >> > --
