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Understanding Load Balancing for Web Servers

Posted on September 1, 2010 by J. Mays

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Apache, Cluster, Clustering, Clusters, Command-line, Httpd_Conf, Linux, Load Balancing, Network, Network Utility, Networking, Server, SSH, Tutorial, Zeus

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Load balancing is the distribution of a workload across many nodes. In the web hosting industry, it is typically used for balancing HTTP traffic over multiple servers acting together as a web front-end. For the sake of this article, we will focus on the balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic through a Zeus Load Balancer.

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