Chapter 6. Load Balancing

Load Balancing

It's day one of your new product launch, and your marketing people have done the best job they can of promoting your company’s widgets. As system administrator, you’ve done the best job you can bringing the company’s infrastructure up to speed. The web site runs on the latest and greatest multiprocessor system, and you have a brand-new File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site. You’ve even been thoughtful enough to put up a chat room so that people can talk about your new widget.

Everything goes well during the first few days of the launch. The word gets spread quickly, and the marketing blitz kicks into full gear. Your servers ...

Get Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.