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Web Server Load balancing is a way of distributing the throughput or processing requirements evenly among multiple web servers in a clustered environment. Web Server Load balancing allows a computer system to easily handle large fluctuations in volume to web sites or databases. Without web server load balancing, one web server could be under utilized while at the same time another web server was being swamped by requests.

Web Server Load Balancing — Methods

Web Server Load balancing can be accomplished with software, hardware, or a combination of both. There are trade-offs to consider in how to implement web server load balancing, so it is best done by someone with web server load balancing expertise.

Web Server Load Balancing — Benefits

While web server load balancing improves the throughput and efficiency of a computer system, it does not improve reliability. Because of this, it is typical to combine failover capabilities with load balancing to improve the robustness of the system.

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