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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 Balancers have non-configurable timeout of timeouts (eg 60 seconds). This causes can cause problems to some of the Infinit.e operations, such as testing and deleting sources and documents.

As a result, we now only You can request Amazon to increase the timeout on their EC2 forums, and they will normally do it within a day or 2. Example forum post I made.

An alternative is to use the load balancer only to provide automated health-checking of the API, eg and we to use Amazon's DNS service, Route 53, for round-robin load balancing (delegating the "rr" subdomain of ikanow.com: useful link).

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