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Load balancers

Load balancers

- [Instructor] Load balancers help web servers scale by distributing the workload among multiple servers. A basic web server configurations look like this. Assigning an IP address to a web server located on a DMZ network. Network administrators then create a DNS Entry that ties the registered domain name for the server, let's say www.myserver.com to the IP address of the server. Then when users type my server.com into their web browser, they connect to the web server in the DMZ. This works well as long as the server can keep up with the requests from users. Eventually, if the website grows, the demand for content will exceed the capacity of the server. Administrators might respond by making the server bigger, but eventually the demand may grow again requiring a bigger and bigger server. This approach isn't scalable because eventually administrators won't be able to purchase a bigger server and they'll be left with a big…

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