Use the domain peer.decentraland.org as a Load balancer and rename that server to peer-ec2.decentraland.org

by 0x5e5d9d1dfd87e9b8b069b8e5d708db92be5ade99 (paralax#de99)

Motivation

Currently the peer.decentraland.org domain receives more than 2x the amount of HTTP requests than the actual Load Balancer at peer-lb.decentraland.org (in charge of distributing the traffic across the catalyst network). This is caused by several external services targeting directly this server URL and not leveraging the catalyst network. As a result if there is a problem with this node, all services depending on it and consuming data from there will face problems too and, on the other hand, this node is using a lot of extra resources in order to respond to those requests.

HTTP requests qty in 1 week received by Host - January 2022

Host	Requests
peer.decentraland.org	160.89M
peer-lb.decentraland.org	75.5M
peer-eu1.decentraland.org	20.39M
peer-ap1.decentraland.org	15.35M
peer-wc1.decentraland.org	11.39

Proposal

• Change the current Catalyst server domain name from peer.decentraland.org to peer-ec2.decentraland.org.
• Make peer.decentraland.org be the Load Balancer while also keeping peer-lb.decentraland.org (as DNS CNAME). These 2 Domains will distribute the requests in the Catalysts network.

Impact

• Everything will keep working as it is.
• The change will be transparent, no updates will be required in external services or apps
• Higher Availability and Security for any App depending on the Catalysts Servers
• All services hitting peer.decentraland.org will end up leveraging the decentralized network, avoiding potential failures
• When doing an HTTP request to peer.decentraland.org or peer-lb.decentraland.org, the request will be distributed across the Catalyst Servers
• The Catalyst with the new domain name peer-ec2.decentraland.org will receive an equitative amount of HTTP requests, releasing a lot of HW resources from that node and with that it will better serve the users connected to it.

• YES: Do this change
• NO: Don't do it
• Invalid question/options

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