# Building a redundant Wowza cluster.

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-redundant-wowza-cluster/48903>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [June 1, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-redundant-wowza-cluster/48903 "2017-06-01T19:52:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Hudgins1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/stephen_hudgins1/32/982_2.png) [@Stephen\_Hudgins1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Stephen_Hudgins1)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-redundant-wowza-cluster/48903/1 "2017-06-01T19:52:18Z")

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I’m wondering if its possible and/or how to build out a redundant pair of Wowza servers. We’re doing 5-10 HLS streams and transcoding on each of the servers, but I’d love for there to be some way to make these redundant. I’ve looked a bit into the Live Repeater, and it _sounds_ like it can provide me with what I want.

What do you all suggest?

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**Author:** ![SiggDev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SiggDev](https://community.wowza.com/u/SiggDev)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-redundant-wowza-cluster/48903/2 "2017-06-03T15:30:48Z")

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For redundancy on the playback side, edge servers with a load balancer in front of them should do the job nicely. Wowza LB is a good product, but cannot work in a redundant mode itself (at least it wasn’t possible when I last looked). So you may want to go a different way, such as Nginx or HAproxy.

Redundancy for the origin segment (handling of incoming connections) may be a bit trickier. You should probably give us some more info about your setup in order to get a good suggestion.