Load Balancing
Load balancing is a technique for using multiple computers to handle a large workload. It might be a large email system, for example, or a very busy website. Asking one server to do all the work isn't feasible, so load balancing allows the system to scale up to meet the demand placed on it.
That helps to keep visitors or users happy, because the service stays responsive even as the usage grows. It's also important to design a comprehensive way of monitoring the load balancing mechanism, so that capacity planning can take place and the scaling requirement can be pre-empted.
There are several different approaches to load balancing under Linux, and the right approach will depend on the particular needs and the tools in use by the project. You can be sure that Tiger Computing can help you to plan for a highly effective load balanced configuration.
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