Top "Load-balancing" questions

The term load balancing is used to describe technology that is used to evenly distribute work across multiple nodes within a network.

consistent hashing vs. rendezvous (HRW) hashing - what are the tradeoffs?

There is a lot available on the Net about consistent hashing, and implementations in several languages available. The Wikipedia entry …

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AWS autoscale ELB status checks grace period

I'm running servers in a AWS auto scale group. The running servers are behind a load balancer. I'm using the …

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Is it legitimate to use dropbox as file storage for my site?

I am approaching the limits of my hosting plan. I doubled it once from 2 to 4 GB and my site (a …

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Client IP issue address over https with Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers

We're currently using Lighttpd with FastCGI to serve PHP to our clients. We recently added load balancing through RackSpace Cloud …

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service external ip pending kubernetes

Why service external IP address is in a pending state? Should I enable any load balancer for my kubernetes master? …

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Enable HTTPS on GCE/GKE

I am running web site with Kubernetes on Google Cloud. At the moment, everything is working well - through http. …

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Why Can't I Access Service in Docker Swarm by its Name or VIP?

So I have a docker engine (version 1.12.6, build 78d1802) running in an Ubuntu host. I created initiated a swarm using …

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How to load balance containers?

How to load balance docker containers running a simple web application? I have 3 web containers running in a single host. …

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Apache Webserver, Tomcat, AJP, "All workers are in error state for route"

To preface this, I've been all over the internet attempting to find a solution. Below are just the latest links …

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What is the best way to handle sessions for a PHP site on multiple hosts?

PHP stores its session information on the file system of the host of the server establishing that session. In a …

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