In windows server 2003 there is a feature built into the TCP/IP networking and IIS that allows for network load balaning to happen between two servers, without dedicated load balancing hardware e.g, ...

Load balance, so-called load distribution. A variety of story saying that using "Ultra Monkey" which is an open source software group without using commercial cluster software will do something. This ...

Software clustering technologies have been evolving for the past few years and are currently gaining a lot of momentum for several reasons. These reasons include the benefits of deploying commodity, ...

I'm looking to set up a fairly rudimentary apache cluster. I realize what I'm describing isn't ideal in terms of performance of failover capability; what I'm looking for is something that works now ...

In-Depth Open 24 Hours: Load Balancing The proper level of load balancing services can ensure consistent availability of Web services. By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest 04/01/2005 In today's world, ...

The load balancer acts as a Layer 4 switch, and switching is done in the kernel space rather than in the user space, minimizing the switching overhead. With these two design decisions, the performance ...