Supporting two services on same VIP and Host Port

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Hello,

I have a server running two web based services, both on port 443. I’m using host headers to differentiate between the two.

We have a need to add a second server for redundancy purposes. I’m curious which of the following (or some other I’m not thinking of?) method would be better:

A) Have both URLs go to one A10 VIP and use aFlex to re-write the outbound host headers such that the correct service is returned by the server

B) Change the existing applications to use two separate ports.
Thanks in advance,

Justin

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Hi Justin,

My suggestion would be option C). Use an HTTP Template with App Switching to point different host headers to different service-groups. Config Mode → Service → Template → HTTP → App Switching. On the CLI it would look something like:

slb template http tp-example host-switching ends-with domain1.tld service-group sg-group1-443 host-switching ends-with domain2.tld service-group sg-group2-443 !