Two Internet connections: Load balancing or two networks (Ubiquiti)

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Hello,
since today I have a second internet connection and hope that Storj does not need too many surge nodes. (SNO Capacity Planning)

I currently have a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro and just realized that it not only has a failover option, but also a built in load balancer.

Would it be sufficient to set up two dynamic DNS records, split my storage nodes in half and start each half with a different dynamic DNS record? Or set them all to the same dyndns entry and leave the load balancing to the router? I’m not sure if this could cause problems? When an external connection to the node is made, it seems to come back through the same internet connection and IP address. I’m not sure how effective load balancing would be with this configuration.

Alternatively, I could use a second router (I got one from my internet provider anyway) and place half of the nodes on this second router on their own network.

Thank you very much for your help!

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Each node you connect has a specific public IP address assigned to it.

The easiest thing I would suggest to you is to have half your nodes on one of the public IPs and the other half on the other.

It is then fairly trivial on UniFi to set the port forwarding to a specific WAN port.

I do not like using load balancing on my UniFi system became it often breaks web pages and sessions on websites. I assign all my default loads to the “Main” connection and then use policy-based routes to specify traffic to be routed to my secondary connection.
The secondary connection also works as a failover on the odd occasion when the primary connection has failed.

Not sure I made much sense, but I hope this helps :slight_smile:

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u are wrong- dream machine pro has not only failover but load balancing (with new update firmware)

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I did not say it doesn’t have load balancing, I said that using it causes problems.

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