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Step 3: Start a load balancer
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We've recently found out that the Amazon Elastic Load Balancer has a non-configurable timeout of 60 seconds. This causes problems to some of the Infinit.e operations, such as testing and deleting sources and documents. As a result, we now only use the load balancer to provide automated health-checking of the API, and we use Amazon's DNS service, Route 53, for round-robin load balancing (delegating the "rr" subdomain of ikanow.com: useful link). |
We provide a template for this (here), though actually the AWS management console interface is just as good, the only custom parameter is the health check target, which should be set to "HTTP:80/api/auth/login/ping/ping".
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