HostSplitter is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that distributes requests to an arbitrary amount of sites based on the Host header.
I commonly run into an issue developing small golang websites: I want to use the same IP address for many sites that aren't large enough to justify their own VPS.
HostSplitter will look for site files by default in "/etc/hostsplitter/". HostSplitter will only read files with the .json extension.
A each site file should look like
{
"hostnames": [
"ammar.io",
"www.ammar.io"
],
"backends": [
"127.0.0.1:9000"
],
"secret": "puppies1234"
}The "secret" field is passed along with every request to that site in the X-Hostsplitter-Secret header. This is intended to be checked before trusting the passed along IP.
The original requester's IP is located in the X-Forwarded-For header.
HostSplitter provides 0 downtime reload functionality via SIGUSR1. E.g
pkill -10 hostsplitter