Global Server Load Balancing
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) allows us to load-balance services across different geographical regions. For instance, large organizations such as Facebook, eBay, and Microsoft use this technology to load-balance their web services. This might be for proximity reasons, because a user might be redirected to the closest available resource, or to keep redundant services available in case of datacenter failures.
So the main purposes for GSLB are:
- Performance; user proximity to the closest available resource
- Disaster recovery, where multiple sites can be grouped as primary and standby
- Load balancing resources between different multiple locations
GSLB is based upon the use of DNS. So for instance when a user wants to go ...
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