Server Load Balancing

Network Address Translation (NAT) is a technique that allows one server or router to provide one IP address publically but actually   Read more about NAT

In my experience I have found that there are three main design characteristics of large scale IT systems that are very important to maximise.  The top 3 design characteristics of large IT systems are

Fault Tolerence is a term that is used quiet a lot when looking at the design of mission critical systems. So what do we mean when we say that a system is fault tolerent? Read more about server fault tolerance

DNS load balancing is the oldest and probably the simplist load balancing approach. It is provides a simple means to implement load balancing. Read more about DNS Load Balancing

There are many definitions of Server Load Balancing (SLB). One good way to think about SLB is as a way to distribute traffic across multiple servers so that the load (incoming requests) is shared across these servers and no one server ends up with too much to do! Read more about how server load balancing works.