A set of proxy servers respectively located on a set of servers communicatively coupled via a first network switch and a second network switch are configured to listen on a predefined proxy IP address, and forward communication requests designated for the predefined proxy IP address to a connection pool of IP addresses for a first server. A proxy server hosted on the first server is configured to listen on IP addresses of the first server, and forward communication requests received on the first IP address and the second IP address to the predefined proxy IP address. The IP addresses of the first server including a first IP address associated with the first server's interface with the first network switch and a second IP address associated with the first server's interface with the second network switch.