Nginx is a versatile and high-performance server known for its capabilities in web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture ...

Many enterprise organizations are talking to IT staff about moving into the cloud environment and/or using virtual machines to take advantage of greater scalability. Being able to access more ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

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Since VMware acquired Avi Networks, the platform has expanded significantly beyond its original load balancing roots. The ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

We are developing an asp.net web application for an internal company website. The web app makes heavy use of an SQL database and I feel that future bottlenecks will come down to SQL performance. In ...

Nginx Plus, the commercial edition of the open source Web server that’s elbowed out Apache HTTPD on many top-traffic sites, unveiled its fourth major version today. Officially named Nginx Plus r4, ...

NGINX tops Microsoft's IIS in the Web Server race These Web sites, and millions of others, have moved to NGINX because it's very fast and uses few system resources. The company has claimed that NGINX ...

Greetings - <BR>We're about to build out a second cluster of web servers (for geographic redundancy using round-robin DNS in a second colo) and I'm looking into a load balancer setup for the second ...