2025-09-28

Architectural changes to routing

• From the beginning, I've been using Hetzner load balancers (LB) to route traffic to the cluster of servers that power Yellowball. Recently, over the past few months, I've experienced multiple reliability issues with the LB, leading to sporadic outages for users. For this reason, I decided to move from using their load balancer and switch to DNS round robin for requests. This should help eliminate a single point of failure that was causing problems.