Companies across the globe seek fast system performance and quick responses when it comes to websites and modern applications. Often such high traffic websites must cater to millions of requests from end users as well as clients simultaneously. In such scenarios, a single server may not be able to handle the network traffic. By Hitesh Jethva.
This article then explains in some detail:
- What is load balancing?
- Why use a load balancer?
- What load balancer types exist?
- Load balancing techniques
- Round robin load balancing method
- Weighted round robin load balancing method
- Least connection load balancing method
- Weighted least connection load balancing method
- Resource based (Adaptive) load balancing method
- Resource based (SDN Adaptive) load balancing method
- Weighted response time load balancing method
- Source IP hash load balancing method
- URL hash load balancing method
… and more. If your website experiences painfully slow performance, it is high time you explore these load balancing methods. Distributing the traffic requests via a load balancer ensures faster system performance, better uptime, efficient resource utilization, and pleasant user experiences. Nice one!
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