Chapter 4. High Availability. HA! No Downtime?!

Often, people refer to high availability (HA) and load balancing (LB) interchangeably and incorrectly, using high availability when they mean load balancing alone and/or when they mean high availability and load balancing together. High availability has become a part of high availability/load balancing because product brochures and promotional material combine high availability and load balancing in a way that implies that they are one and the same thing. This is simply wrong. High availability is an orthogonal concept to load balancing, and, if approached as such, a better understanding can be achieved.

High availability means that things are always available. Even in the event of an unexpected ...

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