Load Balancing
Load Balancing is a technique used to spread work between many processes, computers, disks or other resources.
When providing an online service, it is important to always have access to the Internet. You cannot limit yourself to choosing one provider and being at their mercy. They may fail or you may overload the circuit with peak traffic during the day, resulting in slower network speed. Unavailability when a site is down and slow connections can cause clients to go elsewhere, perhaps to your competition for better service.
Many sites are turning to the multi-homed scenario; having multiple connections to the Internet via multiple providers to provide a reliable and high throughput service. Multi-homed networks are increasing in popularity because they provide networks with better reliability and performance to the end-user. Better reliability results from the fact that the network is protected in case one of the Internet links or access routers fails. Performance increases due to the fact that the network's bandwidth to the Internet is the sum of the different pipes available through the different access links.
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