What is Load balancing?
Load balancing shares the network traffic between two or more servers so that a single server does not get loaded with requests. Load balancing increases performance and reliability. You can use multiple processors or multiple threads in a single processor for load balancing. Load balancing does not require dedicated software and hardware nodes. DNS servers can run the round-robin algorithm against multiple IP Addresses associated with a single domain name. Squid is generally used to act as a caching proxy server. It sends client HTTP requests to the proxy server. The proxy server fetches web pages in accordance with the cache setup, and returns them to the client. Squid can be used to perform basic round-robin load balancing, and to cache results based on your cache configuration.
MaximumASP load balancing powered by F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager offers a valuable advantage for two or more dedicated servers. The hardware load balancing allows MaximumASP to provide high-availability services based on server fail-over, traffic load, or simple round-robin approaches. This optimization between servers ensures that the web surfer receives the fastest possible performance with the shortest download time. In addition to load balancing the benefits for customers include: • Increased application capacity • Improved scalability • Increased reliability by distributing total traffic loads • Redistributing the load of a failed web server • Providing proactive server health checks to determine availability MaximumASP delivers the most cost effective load balancing solution to meet the needs of all of our customers at both ends of the user traffic spectrum – all at an affordable price with proven performance.
Load balancing is the process by which inbound internet protocol (IP) traffic can be distributed across multiple servers. Load balancing enhances the performance of the servers, leads to their optimal utilization and ensures that no single server is overwhelmed. Load balancing is particularly important for busy networks, where it is difficult to predict the number of requests that will be issued to a server. Typically, two or more web serves are employed in a load balancing scheme. In case one of the servers begins to get overloaded, the requests are forwarded to another server. Load balancing brings down the service time by allowing multiple servers to handle the requests. This service time is reduced by using a load balancer to identify which server has the appropriate availability to receive the traffic. The process, very generally, is straightforward. A webpage request is sent to the load balancer, which forwards the request to one of the servers. That server responds back to the l
