Load Balancing

How To Use ProxySQL as a Load Balancer for MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use ProxySQL as a Load Balancer for MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04

ProxySQL is an open-source MySQL proxy server which can improve performance by distributing traffic among a pool of multiple database servers and also improve availability by automatically failing over to a standby if a database server fails. In this guide, you will set up ProxySQL as a load balancer for multiple MySQL servers with automatic failover.

Read more
How To Use Terraform with the cloud provider — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Terraform with the cloud provider

Terraform is a tool for building and managing infrastructure in an organized way. In this tutorial, you’ll install and use Terraform to create an infrastructure on the cloud provider that consists of two Nginx servers that are load balanced by a load balancers.

Read more
How To Create a High-Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High-Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu

Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. Heartbeat is typically used in conjunction with a cluster resource manager (CRM), such as Pacemaker, to achieve a complete HA setup. However, in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a the cloud provider Reserved IP.

Read more
How To Set Up Master Slave Replication on PostgreSQL on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Master Slave Replication on PostgreSQL on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

PostgreSQL, or postgres, is a popular database management system often used to manage the information from websites and applications. In this guide, we will configure a master server postgres replication set up, which will allow us to replicate the changes from the master server onto the slave. This can be used to distribute reads to multiple machines.

Read more
What is Load Balancing? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Load Balancing?

Load balancing is a key component of highly-available infrastructures commonly used to improve the performance and reliability of web sites, applications, databases and other services by distributing the workload across multiple servers. A web infrastructure with no load…

Read more
CHAT