From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 4 Communication and Network Security
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Load balancers
From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 4 Communication and Network Security
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 a 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 myserver.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 those 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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