Submitted by heyrocker on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 15:56.
Yes our load balancer can be configured this way, but that causes us problems because many times we need to take a machine out of the rotation for various reasons (maintenance, patching, testing, etc.) and now we're relying on this one server always being up. Also it is really wise to have the machines be absolute mirrors of each other in both code and configuration. Just makes maintenance a lot easier.
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Yes our load balancer can be configured this way, but that causes us problems because many times we need to take a machine out of the rotation for various reasons (maintenance, patching, testing, etc.) and now we're relying on this one server always being up. Also it is really wise to have the machines be absolute mirrors of each other in both code and configuration. Just makes maintenance a lot easier.