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Hi everyone,
I set up a site using laravel forge and digital ocean. I ssh into my v machine on digital ocean and added my database to connect with the server and pointed that ip to my domain name. And all that stuff works.
Now I want to set up a load balancer server to handle traffic better. I went back to forge to create a new server and checked provision as a load balancer. I checked the server that is hosting the sight to be balance, but I don't know if it is working or how to test if it really is working. I ran a load test and the performance didn't really change at all, which if the site was being load balanced I should see more improvement in the load test.
Please help, or walk me through the steps to do this right. on a laravel 5.1 app by the way, using mysql as my db
Currently in the same boat. I have 1 load balancer pointed to 3 production servers which all point to 1 DB server.
There's very little tutorials or guides in terms of how best to do this. I was wondering if you found any good resources over the last year or have any advice? I'm thinking of just building the load balancer on DO and just using forge for the production and DB server.
I've recently started using the DO Load Balancer. I've found that works quite well for all my Forge servers. I like the simplicity that I dont need to worry about the Load Balancer at all for anything - DO handles it all (apart from the basic config).
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