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.

As terabit switching moves from the lab to the central office, designers must consider algorithms that will keep the switch fabric humming along while balancing the loads.Many of today's switches use ...

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 ...