The Web server acts as an application-level server load balancer by using the Apache mod_proxy_balancer module. Client affinity is implemented based on the cookie/path JSESSIONID parameter.

Part 2 covers application-level server load balancing architectures, which address some of the limitations of the architectures discussed in Part 1. The barrier to entry for many Internet ...

Typical load balancers use Internet Control Message Protocol pings to check server health. Web Server Director Pro goes further by also performing IP and application-level checks.

Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing for Web and Application Servers: NGINX acts as a reverse proxy and a load balancer, distributing requests across multiple servers based on sophisticated load ...

However, load balancing technology is foreign to many customers who, until recently, couldn’t afford it. In addition, it requires knowledge of networking, server administration and applications.

Rackspace has been working on Load Balancers for about a year to make sure it’s easy to install and manage while also allowing it to be highly configurable, Odom said. A beta period for some ...

Load balancers have been a core part of application infrastructure since the mid-1990s. The load balancer, located between the application layer and network infrastructure, ensures high ...

Load balancing is a straightforward method of scaling out an application server infrastructure. As demands increase, new servers can be added, which can become resource pools from which a load ...

If all the Barracuda Load Balancer 340 did was regulate traffic to servers, it would be a valuable tool for any agency running mission-critical applications on physical servers. But the 340 also comes ...

The jaguar component servers talk through the firewall to large UNIX\Oracle databases on a (10.x) subnet.<P>The problem:<BR>The extra subnet between the web and app servers is pissing me off.