topic Re: load balancer in Tech Help - Software/Hardware etc

load balancer

Halfhidden — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:36:01 GMT

Has anyone successfully set up a load balancer to run two servers off the single public ip?

I'm a keen hobbyist and run a server with a few websites for my family and those are handled by CWP (Centos Web Panel) and I'm guessing it is running reverse proxies.

But I would love to be able to run a cloud on my other server at the same time.

So I was wondering if a load balancer would do this for me.

I'm assuming that the load balancer would be at the gateway and then distribute the packets to the appropriate server according to the requests from the internet?

I can't think of any other way to do this. So I'm asking has anyone had any success running two servers off one public ip?

Re: load balancer

Baldrick1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:53:10 GMT

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Re: load balancer

bobpullen — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:16:33 GMT

How would you be planning on accessing these servers? If via unique DNS/hostnames, then a reverse proxy should do exactly as you intend if configured properly. I don't see why you would need a load balancer.

Re: load balancer

Halfhidden — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:06:20 GMT

My understanding is that CWP (Centos web panel) uses a reverse proxy to distribute requests to the domains hosted on the control panel. So if I placed a reverse proxy at the gateway to serve the two servers I would be double natting, I think.

So I'm looking for a solution that can work with CWP and will route requests rather than reverse proxy.... unless I've completely misunderstood the way this works (which is probable)

Re: load balancer

bobpullen — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:47:28 GMT

Not familar with the software, but a spot of Googling suggests it's just using NGINX for reverse proxying purposes. Can't say for certain, but I wonder if there's a way you can edit the NGINX config within CWP to proxy requests to another machine/server on your network? It's light on detail, but this kind of suggests it should be possible.

Re: load balancer

Halfhidden — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:21:23 GMT

That's an interesting idea. CWP has both NginX and Apache. Doing it that way removes the double natting issue. Thanks Bob Pullen I'll do some digging to see if this can be done.

Re: load balancer

greygit1 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:44:11 GMT

"I don't see why you would need a load balancer."

Perhaps the OP wants to dabble with more?

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