Thursday, April 19, 2012

Load balancer

Load Balancer

A load balancer in front of the cluster makes sure that all servers receive fair share of user requests. A hardware load balancer is usually a best option as it provides maximum performance. Companies such F5 and Cisco (big IP) are known for good hardware load balancers. If your budged cannot afford a hardware load balancer, an Apache server running a combination of mod_proxy, mod_rewrite and mod_redundancy can be another option.

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