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What Is Load Balancing

Load balancing is the method of distributing network traffic across multiple resource servers to ensure efficient application performance and reliability. It enhances application availability, scalability, security, and performance by managing traffic, preventing bottlenecks, and providing fault tolerance. Load balancers also offer built-in security features and improve response times by directing requests to the most appropriate servers.

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What Is Load Balancing

Load balancing is the method of distributing network traffic across multiple resource servers to ensure efficient application performance and reliability. It enhances application availability, scalability, security, and performance by managing traffic, preventing bottlenecks, and providing fault tolerance. Load balancers also offer built-in security features and improve response times by directing requests to the most appropriate servers.

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What is load balancing?

Load balancing is the method of distributing network traffic equally across a pool of resources that support
an application. Modern applications must process millions of users simultaneously and return the correct
text, videos, images, and other data to each user in a fast and reliable manner. To handle such high
volumes of traffic, most applications have many resource servers with duplicate data between them. A load
balancer is a device that sits between the user and the server group and acts as an invisible facilitator,
ensuring that all resource servers are used equally.

What are the benefits of load balancing?


Load balancing directs and controls internet traffic between the application servers and their visitors or
clients. As a result, it improves an application’s availability, scalability, security, and performance.

Application availability
Server failure or maintenance can increase application downtime, making your application unavailable to
visitors. Load balancers increase the fault tolerance of your systems by automatically detecting server
problems and redirecting client traffic to available servers. You can use load balancing to make these tasks
easier:

 Run application server maintenance or upgrades without application downtime


 Provide automatic disaster recovery to backup sites
 Perform health checks and prevent issues that can cause downtime

Application scalability
You can use load balancers to direct network traffic intelligently among multiple servers. Your
applications can handle thousands of client requests because load balancing does the following:

 Prevents traffic bottlenecks at any one server


 Predicts application traffic so that you can add or remove different servers, if needed
 Adds redundancy to your system so that you can scale with confidence

Application security
Load balancers come with built-in security features to add another layer of security to your internet
applications. They are a useful tool to deal with distributed denial of service attacks, in which attackers
flood an application server with millions of concurrent requests that cause server failure. Load balancers
can also do the following:

 Monitor traffic and block malicious content


 Automatically redirect attack traffic to multiple backend servers to minimize impact
 Route traffic through a group of network firewalls for additional security

Application performance
Load balancers improve application performance by increasing response time and reducing network
latency. They perform several critical tasks such as the following:

 Distribute the load evenly between servers to improve application performance


 Redirect client requests to a geographically closer server to reduce latency

 Ensure the reliability and performance of physical and virtual computing resources

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