Wednesday, June 1, 2011

What is Server Load Balancing?

By Kevin Abrahams


One of the issues that a server often encounters while it is at work is the influx of requests made by a website's subscribers. When this happens, the server often experiences difficulty in processing each of the subscribers' requests. To manage this problem, a technique called server load balancing has been implemented to make sure that the company has a managed server.

Server load balancing takes care of this problem to ensure that you no longer need to shell out money for unnecessary server upgrades that could severe not only your budget but also waste your time.

Load balancing or load clustering is a very cost efficient means of giving access to your website subscribers without burdening your server. When you have to handle high volumes of traffic in your website, a managed server, which is assisted by load clustering will never experience a decrease in its load time and will never have accessibility problems. Your website's applications, especially those most often accessed by your subscribers will have better response time and throughput.

Server load balancing also guarantees to maximize your server's utilization, optimize your investment in the equipment you had to set up, improve your server's performance and efficiently allocate all the traffic and activity in your website. This could guarantee that you are able to meet the demands of your customers. It can significantly reduce your website's cost of operations to a high degree because the need to upgrade will not be necessary anymore.

Server load balancing ensures a managed server by processing requests and sending out clustered response to all the networks connected to your server. The process also guarantees that your server will always have an optimized application and web infrastructure, high performance, high availability, secure operations and flexibility scalability at a very minimal cost. This ensures that the distribution of information from your server is balanced among all the traffic your server receives.

With server load balancing, systems such as Internet Relay Chat websites, File Transfer Protocol and New Network Transfer Protocol sites, Domain Name Servers and popular websites no longer have to experience downtimes or erratic activity fluctuations. This could not only improve the kind of service that a company offers. It also guarantees that the a server upgrade will not be needed for a long time.




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