Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

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In the fast-paced world of the internet, where every second counts and interruptions are a no-go, imagine a behind-the-scenes wizard making sure everything runs smoothly. That wizard is the Open ...

Free load balancers present an excellent opportunity to maximize performance without breaking the budget if you're seeking a solid solution to improve the security and efficiency of your network.

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The data traffic load at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, is enormous. The network supports approximately 30,000 users and 10,000 nodes spread across 24 buildings on five campuses.

Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing ...

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DigitalOcean has added another feature to its cloud-hosting offerings: load balancers. Supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and bare TCP streams at launch, the load balancer option makes it even easier for ...