Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Failover LB turns nginx boxes into one load balancer
An open-source web GUI for running two or more nginx servers as a coordinated, failover-ready load balancer.
Why it surfacedFailover LB stages every configuration change on every node, tests it with the real nginx binary, and only reloads when the fleet agrees. It also tackles the unglamorous operational edges—clustered certificate renewal, backend health checks, WAF rules, DNS failover, and replaying changes after an offline server returns.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.