Have you ever been commuting back from work and been stuck in bad highway traffic, wondering “why is this happening to me? If only our city planners designed our roads better.” That’s what happens to all the end users on your network if you aren’t using a load balancer. Load balancers provide efficient and reliable service to all employees on your network by ensuring that no single server is overloaded from traffic.
Mostly used in server farms or clusters, these devices serve to function as regulators for Internet traffic and ensure that requests are spread evenly across your network. Without them, chaos would ensue. Some large organizations require them to make sure that network traffic isn’t too bad and that there are no points of congestion in your network.
More importantly, server load balancers help networks by providing failover functionality—granting your organization better network security and providing faster response times to downtime...
