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Firstly, what do you think HTTP load balancers are, if not HTTP servers? Secondly, why would anyone use a load balancer? Almost every website in existence does
by milesrout 10y ago
Firstly, what do you think HTTP load balancers are, if not HTTP servers?
Secondly, why would anyone use a load balancer? Almost every website in existence doesn't need a load balancer.
- user5994461 10y agoA web server runs applications, a load balancer distributes incoming traffic. They have different purposes. Almost every public website in existence use multiple web servers and load balancers to balance between them. That's the only way to do failover and handle more traffic than a single box can take.