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Your Epic Fail: Fast or Slow?
Posted on October 11, 2009 | No CommentsIn the load balancing world, many vendors have the concept of “sorry servers”, or “backup server farms/pools”. Essentially, if most or all of your primary servers are down, traffic is redirected to a backup server(s) containing either reinforcements of the same web application, or a... -
In Praise of the N00b
Posted on September 15, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe world of load balancing, to put it lightly, is a strange world indeed. It involves a combination of skills that many don’t yet have. It’s a combination of networking (Ethernet, TCP/IP), Layer 7 application protocols (HTTP, HTTPS), encryption, and a little bit of application...