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Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology journalism. Her work appears in publications including The Semantic Web Blog, RFID Journal, Smart Enterprise ...

Mod_proxy_balancer, an add-in module for the Apache HTTP Server, acts as a software load balancer to split traffic across multiple back-end servers.

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In the fast-paced world of the internet, where every second counts and interruptions are a no-go, imagine a behind-the-scenes wizard making sure everything runs smoothly. That wizard is the Open ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Load balancers have been a core part of application infrastructure since the mid-1990s. The load balancer, located between the application layer and network infrastructure, ensures high application ...

Not sure if this is best here, Networking or Linux, but here goes... I'm looking to build a Linux (CentOS) reverse proxy to front an application server cluster. We currently have IIS performing this ...