At its simplest, a load balancer is a mechanism that distributes traffic across multiple destination hosts to ensure no one single host catches the full workload. A DNS load balancer, for example, ...

The network load-balancing (NLB) vendor landscape has consolidated down to five major players and some niche alternative vendors. META Trend: Wide-area network services will transition toward IP VPNs ...

None of the services users take for granted on the internet -- such as online shopping, reading the news or checking investments -- or in large corporate IT environments would work without load ...

Free load balancers present an excellent opportunity to maximize performance without breaking the budget if you're seeking a solid solution to improve the security and efficiency of your network.

Hi all! I've just released my first beta of Linux Network Load Balancing.... it's a driver (+ userland tool) to make decentered load balancing clusters. I hope someone is interested in the project and ...