{"id":246,"date":"2015-05-27T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T10:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccexchangeblog.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2016-02-29T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:24:37","slug":"what-is-load-balancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccexchange.com\/blog\/what-is-load-balancing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is load-balancing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gccexchangeblog.files.wordpress.com-load_balancing\"<\/a>A load-sharing mirror or load-balancing mirror is a copy of a website or web service that not only acts as a backup for the main resource but actively participates in serving a portion of its traffic.<\/p>\n

The load-sharing mirror uses an active running copy of a site that is stored on a separate server or servers that respond to a portion of requests for a service or web page. This sharing helps to distribute large workloads for heavy usage or demanding services as well as invisibly redirecting to more local regional servers across the Internet.<\/p>\n

Mirror sites are often used as back up servers for disaster recovery. Even sites that use load-sharing mirrors often keep separate offline mirrors for protection in the event of catastrophes. Although load-sharing mirrors may be read-only, their intended purpose is more to maintain performance of a site or service and provide a failover mechanism rather than serve solely as backup.<\/p>\n

The load between servers is often balanced by purpose-designed hardware but can be performed by additional software on a separate server as well. The servers may all be local to the load-sharing server or geographically distributed.<\/p>\n

Those who run large web sites and services often use load sharing as a method of providing consistent, reliable performance and enhancing security by hiding the end server behind the original contact point.<\/p>\n

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\nK V Ramana<\/p>\n

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