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Normally no, a load balancer is for heavy traffic. But you could still work out two servers if you want.
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I need loadbalancer for this?
hello team,
I have a laravel app with 2 languages.
www.domain.com/en www.domain.com/de
I like use a server in US for /en.
And for /de a german server.
Is this the usecase of loadbalancer server??
Level 4
@jlrdw no? But which element tells laraval: This traffic come from germany, use the „de“ server? Because its the same domain. I dont like use subdomain.
Level 75
@david19 if you aren't going to just use language files, you could probably set a default, then a link at top for which country.
Many sites I have seen have the Flags with country initials next to it.
I don't know if using ip addresses would work, as I have not dwelt with ip addresses in that way.
Edit:
From a search there are services for this, look here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60069319/country-name-from-ip-address
I suggest search further for more articles and post.
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Level 4
@jlrdw yes i understand what you mean. But how i configure this? Its the same laravel application, and the same domain. Do mean i setup in forge the „de“ server and set the domain in forge to domain.com/de? And on the other server domain.com/en?
Yes i have language switcher on the app. If you click „de“, then you will redirect to /de. And the session middleware locale change to de, too. This works! But now both use the same server.
Level 122
A service like Cloudflare can help you distribute traffic to two servers for as little as $5 per month
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/load-balancing/
Im not sure it would also direct the user to a language specific url , you should probably do that in your app by choosing a default based on the user's location but also giving them a cookie if they decide to change language (eg, just because im travelling to the US wont necessarily mean i want the english version)
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