Now this is something which has been on my mind since I started stetting up our load balancers.
Would you use the MASTER/BACKUP configurations for keepalived if both your HAProxy servers were the same hardware specs?
Or, would you use the EQUAL state?
Why I ask is, in my mind at least It seems more detrimental to have the LBs switch on a fail over and then back to the original master... as opposed to if using the EQUALS state the active LB is the one it switched to during the fail over