Load Balancer allows you to distribute tasks across multiple devices connected on a logical level or physically. This service will increase the resilience of projects due to their redundancy, optimized scalability and improved fault tolerance.
A number of algorithms regulate load balancing when providing content delivery and other network services. It does so by prioritizing responses to specific requests sent by clients over the network. Client traffic is distributed among the available servers to guarantee product delivery in a constant and peak-performance manner.
Reliability, scalability, high availability and application delivery — this is the role of server load balancing.
It balances your primary loads:
Load balancing at the transport level. This is a DNS-based approach and is independent of the application payload.
As in windows server load balancing, traffic load is used to govern balancing decisions at the application level.
The key benefit is in the user experience. Distributing the load evenly across the server pool leads to a boost in efficiency within the application and a smoother overall delivery to the end user. More and more IT specialists are turning to server load balancers to:
Simplify scalability. Server resources can be regulated in step with fluctuations in server demand and channel that traffic to the servers in the pool best able to deliver seamless peak performance to the end user.
Provide redundancy. The only way to insure against hardware failure and the ensuing downtime is the use of a number of redundancies. Server load balancers are able to direct traffic away from downed servers to those able to deliver the application or website to the end user with minimal interruption.
Facilitate maintenance without performance loss. An enterprise with server infrastructure housed in numerous physical locations and cloud environments is then free to schedule maintenance at any time worldwide without the need to consider interrupting traffic flows day or night as the server load balancers can redirect that traffic to those servers unaffected.
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Your technical equipment may suffer from overload without necessary preparations. It has a disastrous impact on User Experience. If you are interested in keeping your project accessible and fast, you need to find the optimal solution and take care of server load balancing. It needs protection from overwork.
Computing is a process of regulating traffic. It has special programs that balance the number of duties between servers according to your resources. There are various types of load balancers:
· Cloud-based. One of the most affordable options on this list;
· Software. You need to install a special program in advance. It can be an open-source or purchased version;
· Virtual. Flexible and effective, it uses only virtual resources;
· Hardware. This physical device is very powerful, but often it comes with an unpleasant price tag attached.
A load-balancing web server is a demanding process, so, it requires practice. Nowadays, there are many ways to perform it: Network, HTTP(S), internal, and DNS server load balancing.
It is vital to know, how these applications work. The complexity of the traffic control process is hard to explain but you can see the result according to various methods applied via a special program. You can use any type of software – Linux or Windows server load balancing algorithms are absolutely the same. There are several generally used tactics:
· Round Robin. The most basic technique is applied while dealing with equally powerful servers. All the data is being sent to the server until it gets too loaded. Next tasks will be redirected to free ones;
· IP Hash. It analyzes the physical location and finds the closest host to it. Quite laconic yet efficient tool;
· Least Connections. If the data processor has no or few active assignments, the app will automatically designate it as the primary recipient of users’ requests;
· Least Response Time. If there are processes in the list of tasks that take up too much traffic, the program will choose which server is the most capable;
· Least Bandwidth. The fastest computer gets more tasks. As simple as that.
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