High availability of http service

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I know this has been discussed many times. I read a lot about the subject. Let's say I want to have a failover between http services (a static web server, a load-balancer..)

From what I understand, the only real options to me are:

anycast
virtual IP address (with a failover script)

I am a small shop, so I can't afford the first, and the second is difficult across various data centers.

There is also the option of using multiple A records. This would be perfect if consumers (like browsers, proxies..) would handle it well.

I think Internet should be easy to use, even if you want a high availability setup. In this case, just multiple A records make sense to me.

My question is: where can I lobby to make the HTTP protocol write this as a rule. Where can I PR it. I'm sure there is already some discussions about it, and would be happy if you can point to some of it. (I searched without much success)

(Started from a discussion here )

SRV records are also interesting! https://www.pantz.org/software/bind/srvdnsrecords.html — Pierre Ozoux, Jul 30 '16 at 11:15

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '16 at 11:23

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Look at who made the HTTP2 standard http://ietf.org/. Speak with the guys there. They have chat, discussion groups, etc.

Even though I disagree with your opinion, thank you for taking time to improve standards!

answered Jul 19 '16 at 11:23

Alex H

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Could you elaborate on why you disagree? – Pierre Ozoux Jul 20 '16 at 14:39
I think that delivery protocols do not need to have HA built in them by default and they should leave that on the standard implementation level. – Alex H Jul 20 '16 at 14:43

High availability of http service

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