nodebalancer or rebuild
I had a spike in traffic today 450 simultaneous visits via google realtime. Im was told I need to go to a larger server but it looks like a nodebalancer would be cheaper? suggestions?
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watrick
Linode Staff
It sounds like the recommendation that you received was to have more resources to handle the workload that your Linode is trying to perform.
A NodeBalancer is Linode's offering for a load balancer, which is a tool to distribute workloads across multiple servers. It's the first networking stop that a user hits on your set up. From the NodeBalancer, a connection gets made to a backend server. Usually, this set up consists of 2 or more servers on the backend that are replicas of each other to serve the same content. This set up is especially helpful with ensuring some amount of high availability as if one backend server goes down, your site is still available.
As you can see, a NodeBalancer does not sound like the right option for the use case that you provided, considering it's not more resources for handling requests, but a way to administer a workload across multiple servers.