The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

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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A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Many enterprise organizations are talking to IT staff about moving into the cloud environment and/or using virtual machines to take advantage of greater scalability. Being able to access more ...

We are developing an asp.net web application for an internal company website. The web app makes heavy use of an SQL database and I feel that future bottlenecks will come down to SQL performance. In ...

KEMP Technologies today announced its plans to deliver the LoadMaster R320, a purpose-built, hardware load balancing and application delivery controller, the first platform to be released in ...

So does this mean for a properly redundant load balanced solution, I'm looking at needing two additional servers with DFS or something similar to ensure that the profile server going down doesn't take ...

Are visitors complaining about response time when they visit your website? Perhaps you’ve been reading reviews of load balancers and staring at pictures of an expensive ArrowPoint or Alteon load ...