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A Cloud Load Balancer Enables Maximum
Application Performance
Introduction:
Before trying to understand what a cloud balancer does, let us be clearof what cloud load balancing is:
Cloud load balancing is the process of allocating workloads andcomputing resources in a cloud computing environment.
Load balancing distributes the workload among two or morecomputers so that extra work is done in the same amount of time.
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Load balancing is achieved with the help of hardware, softwareor a combination of both.
A cloud load balancer makes this possible by programming trafficto and fro between cloud servers.
Who needs load balancing?
Companies that experience highweb traffic:
Rapid spikes in online trafficcan be a source of worry evento the best of websites.
For a business website even abrief outage can incur a loss ofthousands of dollars.
Companies that want to attain high availability that is maintainable as they grow in business: Mission critical applications and workloads require high availability
solutions.
At least two backend servers will act as redundancies so that if oneis not operating the other will take over.
Companies that want to distribute inbound application traffic acrossnumerous destinations that include consumption in public andprivate clouds.
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In the initial stages cloud load balancer focused on distributing workloads across the networks to guarantee availability of applications and services.
With improvement in technology, a cloud load balancer has now become a tool for solution delivery so that a company’s critical applications are secure and always available.
Benefits of Cloud Load Balancing:
The chief advantages of a cloud load balancer accrue from the scalable and global reach of the cloud itself.
It allows for ease and speed of scaling.
This translates into the company’s ability to handle traffic spikes without downgrading performance.
It enhances reliability by its capability to host an application at multiple cloud centers spread across the world.
Cloud hosting vendors can have best in class cloud solutions needed by high traffic websites.
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