http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/07/03/how-to-select-the-approprite-load-balancing-technology/ Web Hosting Industry News, Latest Trends, and Analyses. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:51:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 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 16:30:54 +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 : load balancing methods with network diagrams 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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