# Http loadbalancers vs smart elasticsearch loadblalncers **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 13, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-loadbalancers-vs-smart-elasticsearch-loadblalncers/6153 "2011-12-13T23:18:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Piavlo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/piavlo/32/1214_2.png) [@Piavlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Piavlo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-loadbalancers-vs-smart-elasticsearch-loadblalncers/6153/1 "2011-12-13T23:18:33Z")
Hi, There is elasticsearch cluster and app running on elastic size webfarm which need to access the elasticsearch cluster. Initially I was thinking to run haproxy locally on each webserver in the farm. But running elasticsearch with no data as smart loadbalancer is very attractive. So I want to under stand if it's a good idea to run it in the following setup. I want to run elasticsearch with node.data set to false on each webserver node. From documentation it is not clear which role these nodata elasticsearch nodes play in Gateway module recovery. Say there is a cluster of 3 nodes with replication=1 and gateway: type: local recover\_after\_nodes: 2 recover\_after\_time: 1m expected\_nodes: 3 Since the nodata elasticsearch nodes is dynamic and it's also not clear if such nodes have effect on the recovery, is the above gateway configuration stays the same or should be changed? Any other issues I need to consider? Thanks Alex |||| ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-loadbalancers-vs-smart-elasticsearch-loadblalncers/6153/2 "2017-07-06T03:45:26Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:45am UTC