The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

You’ve written a Web application that runs happily in production on Tomcat, probably on port 80. Some early problems might include complaints from your security team because your server runs as a root ...

Providing fault tolerance as well as the ability to scale beyond the capacity of a single server, load balancers are practically a necessity for any commercial site. Because loads on a given Web site ...