this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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I dont think so, when the site is overloaded then clients cant reach it at all.
It should be compatible if someone sets it up.
You could configure something like a Cloudflare worker to throw up a page directing users elsewhere whenever healthchecks failed.
Then cloudflare would be able to spy on all the traffic so thats not an option.
That's...not how things work. Everyone has their philosophical opinions so I won't attempt to argue the point, but if you want to handle scale and distribution, you're going to have to start thinking differently, otherwise you're going to fail when load starts to really increase.
Cloudflare does have the ability to spy on traffic though, they hold SSL keys.
You could run an interstitial proxy yourself with a little health checking. The server itself doesn't die, just the webapp/db. nginx could be stuck on there (if it's not already there) with a temp redirect if the site is timing out.
A better option for a simple usecase like that is using something from your DNS provider. Depending on who you use they may have a health check service that has no access to user data that can simply ping a URL, and if it fails hard enough, start redirecting traffic to join-lemmy.org
I think Constellix has it, though I'm not necessarily recommending them specifically
How about https://deflect.ca/ they could still spy but probably less bad?