Many enterprise organizations are talking to IT staff about moving into the cloud environment and/or using virtual machines to take advantage of greater scalability. Being able to access more ...

Server load balancers have become a critical infrastructure component for ensuring optimal performance of large Internet or intranet sites. Raw performance numbers are a useful comparison metric, but ...

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.

Nginx Plus, the commercial edition of the open source Web server that’s elbowed out Apache HTTPD on many top-traffic sites, unveiled its fourth major version today. Officially named Nginx Plus r4, ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Savvy network managers are using open-source software to provision new, inexpensive virtual servers, fueling the exponential growth of server clusters, server farms and Web applications. However, just ...

We have a set up like this:<P>7 IIS4 Webservers on one subnet (192.x) and 14 Jaguar CTS servers (clustered) on a different subnet(192.y). Radware balances the webserver traffic in a round-robin ...

Greetings - <BR>We're about to build out a second cluster of web servers (for geographic redundancy using round-robin DNS in a second colo) and I'm looking into a load balancer setup for the second ...