Internet and intranet grows rapidly, business consolidation,migrate to web based application, all these put more transactions, more users to application servers, and requires it to dispatch its performance more flexible on demand. Putting more CPUs, memories or other kind of resources will only let a single machine grow to a certain limit with a pretty high cost, server cluster with load balance capability becomes the de facto standard to build a highly scalable system.
Load balance technologies dispatch the work load to servers within the application cluster, it dramatically boosts the performance and availability of the system. TriLoad
Balancer is such a server to help build such an application cluster. |