Load Balancing Web Services |
At Microsolve we utilise the following concept of Load Balancing. As the number of user accessing the internet is increasing rather rapidly and across multi platform devices, it is highly likely for well known web sites to get millions of page visit per day. This can create challenges relating to continued performance and user experience on the website with increased site traffic load.
To deal with this, load balancing, replication and acceleration of web services is vital for large traffic sites. Furthermore to improve
performance, effective load balancing techniques are required. With our carefully constructed load balancing technique there are many benefits to this process, which include:
- Improved performance - The highest performance is achieved when the processing power of servers is used intelligently. Advanced server load balancing can direct end-user service requests to the servers that are least busy and therefore capable of providing the fastest response times.
- Creates Resilience - high-availability pairs for load balancer resilience, and creates fault-tolerance for your back-end servers.
- Adds Intelligence - Content inspection rules allow you to send requests for certain web pages to specific groups of servers.
- Improves Reliability - By continually monitoring the health of your back-end servers, failed servers are automatically detected and removed from the cluster until they recover.
- Improved flexibility and scalability - Many content intensive applications have scaled beyond the point where a single server can provide adequate processing power. Both enterprises and service providers need the flexibility to deploy additional servers quickly and transparently to end-users.
- Enhanced availability - server load balancing is its ability to improve website availability. If a server fails, load balancing can automatically redistribute end-user service requests to other servers within a server farm or to servers in another location.
- Less disruption - Server load balancing also prevents planned outages for content or hardware maintenance from disrupting service to end users.
Source: SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE Volume: 34 Issue: 4 Pages: 339-353
Author(s): Sanghi, D, Jalote, P, Agarwal, P, Jain, N, Bose, S |
