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 ...

Nginx is a versatile and high-performance server known for its capabilities in web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture ...

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.

Given the popularity of Linux with many ISPs, it behooves the Linux system administrator to be aware of load balancing since most ISPs use load balancers to add scalability and fault tolerance to the ...

Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology journalism. Her work appears in publications including The Semantic Web Blog, RFID Journal, Smart Enterprise ...