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What i would love to see offered by hetzner is loadbalancers :)

Shouldn't be too hard to set up yourself. As their traffic is so cheap, external vs. internal traffic doesn't really matter.

Out of interest, how do you spec the ram/cpu for a load balancer?

I need a newtwork load balancer so i don't have to spend 25 eur for additional server to act as a loadbalancer in simpler and budget restricted scenarios.

Why do you need a load balancer if you don't have enough traffic to justify a beefier dedicated box with a few tb data included and a proper gb uplink? Are you streaming game/3d data or something where each request is really compute heavy, but data is less than 100mbs?

[ed: never mind - 20tb included for the cheapest box. That's a bit of a departure from earlier. That's 60 mbps sustained 24/7 for a month. That's probably hard to meet with a full regular web stack running on a single tiny vm..

Oth, should be able to just ha proxy on one of those - or two-three w heartbeat...]

If one machine goes down (updates, hacked, hardware failure) i still need to have a second one that can handle the incoming requests

Either you use a third-party service like Cloudflare or you need to address this via DNS. A load balancer just adds a potential point of failure.

And if the lb goes down?

haproxy

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