Five Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Its Load Balancing Setup
Traffic layers rarely fail loudly — they fall behind quietly. Five warning signs that the setup which got you here won’t get you further, and what the next step looks like for each.
Traffic layers rarely fail loudly — they fall behind quietly. Five warning signs that the setup which got you here won’t get you further, and what the next step looks like for each.
Free software is not free infrastructure. Where the real money goes in a DIY traffic layer — engineering hours, incident exposure, and key-person risk — and what consolidating it onto one platform changes.
A basic HAProxy config takes twenty minutes. Certificates, health checks, failover, monitoring, and safe change management are where the real work — and the real risk — live. There is a shorter path.