Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. Load balancing is a basic function for managing a website, distributing traffic among multiple web servers and adding needed fault tolerance. But ...

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 ...

Today's Test Center guide to load balancers and Web application accelerators by Logan Harbaugh pulls together all of his reviews in the space over the past two years, and zeros in on the key ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Nine years ago, Sussex County CIO ...

Experts from analyst firm Quocirca examine the changing nature of enterprise IT strategy and offer advice to IT leaders. Load Balancing (LB), is now popping up on the corporate security agenda! LB is ...

Poor man’s load balancing is properly called Round Robin DNS. Using this technique, you set up a series of A records in DNS, each with the same name, but pointing to a different IP address. As an ...

currently we have a single mail server that is a single point of destination for alerts, reports, applications, etc. called mail.local.net. We allow our app admins, developers, etc to point internal ...

Load balancing is a basic function for managing a website, distributing traffic among multiple web servers and adding fault tolerance. But load balancers don’t run well without being configured ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Load balancing is a basic function for managing a website, distributing traffic among ...