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by vidarh 4460 days ago
A load balancer need (should) not be SPOF: You run two (or more) of them, with IP takeover (e.g. via keepalived or similar, that continuously vote on the master), or you make the clients try to connect to two or more IP's. Or both.

It's really quite trivial to ensure your load balancer is not SPOF if you're ok with clients having to reconnect on failure, and only slightly more hassle if you want to allow connections to survive one of your load balancer boxes failing.