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What Is A Load Balancer
What Is A Load Balancer
What Is A Load Balancer
Load balancers handle incoming requests from users for information and other services. They
sit between the servers that handle those requests and the internet. Once a request is received,
the load balancer first determines which server in a pool is available and online and then routes
the request to that server. During times of heavy loads, a load balancer can dynamically add
servers in response to spikes in traffic. Conversely, they can drop servers if demand is low.
Delivering requests to the best network servers as quickly and efficiently as possible,
based on the chosen method of distributing network/internet traffic
Continually checking the performance of the network servers and make decisions which
server is performing in the best way to serve the users demands
Affordable load balancers available as both virtual load balancers and hardware load
balancers.
LoadMaster supports the most popular virtual OSs including:
VMWare
Hyper-V
XEN
KVM
LoadMaster is certified by leading vendors including:
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Microsoft
Cisco
Dell
VMWare
SAP
Citrix
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