February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
9h 40m
English
Content preview from Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition
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Introduction to load balancing
All of the most visited websites in the world are built over carefully planned server architectures: fast page loads and download speeds are a requirement for long-term traffic growth. The concept of load balancing has the potential to solve problems pertaining to scalability, availability, and performance. After a quick description of the concept, we will elaborate on how Nginx offers to implement such an architecture.