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Just curious, do other reverse proxies have this feature? Why aren't you using them?

To me this sounds like exactly the sort of feature that belongs in an enterprise product. So simple it could be implemented with a shell script in an hour or two by any competent sysadmin, and just out of being core functionality.

The idea would be that by buying the enterprise product you save yourself the time/money of being/hiring that competent sysadmin. How is that not reasonable?




Yes, pretty much every reverse proxy supports this. Most other software sucks in much bigger ways. And no this could not be done with a shell script.


Not easily, but this can be implemented by having NGINX proxy to Haproxy and have Haproxy do the health checks.

Scales well enough.




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