Load Balancers 2.1

Question 1

What do they do?

Answer 1

Distributes traffic to multiple servers for destinations that have high amounts of traffic. Also good for situations where a server goes down, the balancer can re-distribute the traffic to alternate servers.

Question 2

Removes More Loads

Answer 2

Load balancers can go as far as handling SSL encryptions and decryptions to take strain off the web servers. They can also do caching. It can also prioritize certain applications to the server over others and even redistribute traffic based on application switching.

Question 3

Methods of Balancing

Answer 3

Round robins, dynamic round robin, dynamic distribution, .

Question 4

Affinity

Answer 4

The load balancer will always use the same server for a particular user or a particular application.