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Load Balancing

ALSO CALLED: Web Load Balancing, Workload Balancing, Server Load Balancing, SLB, Network Load Balancing, Server Workload Balancing, Load Balancer, and Round Robin DNS
DEFINITION: Load balancing is dividing the amount of work that a computer has to do between two or more computers so that more work gets done in the same amount of time and, in general, all users get served faster. Load balancing can be implemented with hardware, software, or a combination of both. Typically,  … 
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Load Balancing 101: The Evolution to Application Delivery Controllers
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WHITE PAPER: ADCs are the natural evolution to the critical network real estate that load balancers of the past held, and while they owe a great deal to those bygone devices, they are a distinctly new breed providing availability, performance and securi...
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LOAD BALANCING DEFINITION (continued): …  load balancing is the main reason for computer server clustering.

On the Internet, companies whose Web sites get a great deal of traffic usually use load balancing. For load balancing Web traffic, there are several approaches. For Web serving, one approach is to route each request in turn to a different server host address in a domain name system (DNS) table, round-robin fashion. Usually, if two servers are used to balance a work load, a third server is needed to … 
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