It's worth pointing out that the loadbalancer works fine for a short while until the web server becomes overwhelmed by network conns to the app servers in time_wait/established. It'll typically stop working after maybe a hundred requests which equates to perhaps 1400 connections showing in netstat. I've seen it get to tens of thousands, which makes the web server pretty difficult to even login to!
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