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 ...

please note that this is my home gear, in a lab / learning environment with no budget for F5s or the like... i have a linux router running the balance package, a couple vlans, and two linux servers. i ...

Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing ...