Load Balancer

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topic: 🖥️ Tech
links: How to scale a web server
source: Was ist ein Load Balancer? Definition für Load Balancing - Citrix Germany
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A load balancer splits up server traffic to several different devices.

A load balancer is a piece of hard- or software that you place in front of your web server to handle huge amounts of requests and avoid an overload. To achieve this, they balance out the requests across multiple servers and decide which client is handled by which server. They can use different techniques, starting by Round Robin or using a more complex mechanism that analyzes the response time, process load, or bandwidth and picks the server by one or several of these criteria.