Load Balancing

[anupam kant]

Can anyone help me!!!

What is laod balancing?
Is it something related to iis and website performance tuning or simply network performance?

[coolbiz]

All of the above and many more.

Load balancing basically refers to a group of machnes/servers that serve the same type of resources to clients. The resources could be almost anything that are compliance with Load Balancing. For example, ASP.NET has a new feature called "Web Farm" that specifically deals with load balancing issue.

The idea is, for example, serving 50 clients with more than one servers is much more efficient/faster than just using one server. Of course there is a mechanism that can find a server with the least load and points a client to that server.

-Cool Bizs

[anupam kant]

Thanks Coolbiz
...could you please provide me some references for more detail.

Thanks again :)

[coolbiz]

It is a pretty broad topic and I only know the basics about it. If you search GOOGLE or even M$ MSDN/TECHNET website, you should be able to find out the some information about this.

Good Luck,
-Cool Bizs

[mummadipartha]

hi,

1.i want to know is there any difference between webfarm and web garden?
2.what is web farm?
3.what is webgarden?

thanks in advance....
Reddy

[anupam kant]

To be very specific:
Web Farm: more than one server in involved, i.e. one application served from multiple server, with each server hosts the application

Web Garden: an application runs in multiple processes within a single, multi-processor machine.

[coolbiz]

Anupam,

I see that you've been reading on load balancing stuff ... good job :)

Good Luck,
-Cool Bizs