Nodebalancer 2 VPS and then ?
So how can a Nodebalancer help me with performance, my VPS is in Fermont because my visitors are most from California and also outside that, but most of them are in USA. So I want to balance the traffic, visitors from New York get the content from the closest server in New York if that is possible I will add a server in New York too. Can a Nodebalancer help me with this. Or can you also use a Nodebalancer for 1 VPS and what does it do ? I can't find it and the information that is on this website about Nodebalancer is just for me hocus spocus
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Danielle
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NodeBalancer also does not serve as a content distribution network (CDN). A CDN tries to serve content from as close to the requester as possible. I have no personal experience with them, but CloudFlare
What a NodeBalancer does is balance traffic between multiple nodes serving the same web site*. If a node goes down, the NodeBalancer will stop sending traffic there so your users don't see downtime. If you have a problem with your server getting overloaded or crashing frequently, and tweaking your application's behavior doesn't solve the problem, and you can set up multiple nodes to serve the same data, a NodeBalancer may be useful.
*Actually, it works for other network applications too, not just the web.