November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
5h 8m
English
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) allows us to load-balance services across different geographical regions. For instance, large organizations such as Facebook, eBay, and Microsoft use this technology to load-balance their web services. This might be for proximity reasons, because a user might be redirected to the closest available resource, or to keep redundant services available in case of datacenter failures.
So the main purposes for GSLB are:
GSLB is based upon the use of DNS. So for instance when a user wants to go ...