Has anyone tried load balancing plex servers?
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I was just wondering if the community has experimented with testing a multi server setup? For example, I'm envisioning 2 plex servers configured to use the same meta-data, and media, with a HAProxy server in the front end that I can use to distribute the load across. Just wondering if anyones tried something like this?
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Have several servers require user to select server manually. What OP want is to use HAProxy to load balance on server side.
Actually it doesn't require selecting servers manually, user only sees the server they have access to
You setup only work if the user are separate on differently server evenly. What if there are 10 user want to stream and they can only access to Server A? Your Server B and Server C will sit there idle while Server is having heavy traffic.
You can grant there access to Server A, B, C but they will have to choose themselves and they don't know what to choose if they don't the server current load. You will also have sync the metadata and watch status yourself.
But both of these methods are NOT load balancing (which HAProxy wants to achieve). Load balancing is suppose to route the traffic depends on the server load. If Server A is facing heavy traffic, new traffic will go to B and C. Clients won't and shouldn't know about which server they are using.
Umm yeah for enterprise systems it makes sense, first of all there is no app support to do any if this , my solution Atleast is a solution. Lol