Loadbalancing failover only
Hello there, i'm very uneducated with load balancing. A month ago I subscribed to CF loadbalancing and created my two endpoints (which are two OVH servers with different IP & location).
The loadbalancing works well, request sent to my api.xxxxx.xxx will sometime end up on the first server or on the other which is expected behavior I guess.
I want to change the way it works by sending all the request to the first server when the first server is healthy. I want to send to server 2 only when server 1 is down.
I don't see this option it the "Traffic steering" step so I'm wondering how to achieve that ? I tried setting the server 2 weight to like 1% but it doesn't seem to change anything.
Thank you very much !
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Two pools and then you just do Traffic Steering -> Off, https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/load-balancers/common-configurations/#active---passive-failover
Cloudflare Docs
Common configurations | Cloudflare Load Balancing docs
Consider the following sections to understand how to achieve some commonly used load balancer configurations.
(you'd need to setup health checks as well of course/some threshold so it knows when your primary one is down)
Okay so you can only do that through pools got it thanks !