http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/07/03/how-to-select-the-approprite-load-balancing-technology/ Web hosting blog - industry news, trends, products and discussions. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:26:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/07/03/how-to-select-the-approprite-load-balancing-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Malcolm Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:30:54 +0000 http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=404#comment-401 These days their is not much difference between a software and a hardware load balancer, most of the low end vendors Kemp Technologies, Barracuda, Coyote Point, CAI & Loadbalancer.org all provide hardware load balancers based on Linux or FreeBSD from around $2500. What many people don't realise is that it often requires an infrastructure change to apply hardware load balancing (In the same way that a hardware firewall does). Blatant link to my company coming :-). But this web page is a good overview of the load balancing options : <a href="http://www.loadbalancer.org/load_balancing_methods.html" rel="nofollow">load balancing methods with network diagrams </a> These days their is not much difference between a software and a hardware load balancer, most of the low end vendors Kemp Technologies, Barracuda, Coyote Point, CAI & Loadbalancer.org all provide hardware load balancers based on Linux or FreeBSD from around $2500. What many people don’t realise is that it often requires an infrastructure change to apply hardware load balancing (In the same way that a hardware firewall does). Blatant link to my company coming . But this web page is a good overview of the load balancing options :
load balancing methods with network diagrams

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