Working outside in, the XYZ website has a single web server. A recent outage has suddenly identified available budget money for redundant components at each layer of the current design. By the way, every company is one major outage away from adding budget money for redundancy plans. One web server is currently used in the design. To add redundancy, we must horizontally scale the web server layer by adding additional web servers, eliminating the single point of failure. How will traffic be passed to both servers? How does the packet on the wire know which web server to go to and which path to take in and out, and how is all of this physically connected?
Load balancing is a major design component when adding redundancy to ...
