Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

Most breaches don’t outsmart your stack; they walk through a permissive load balancer you tuned for speed instead of trust.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As your Nginx configuration grows, this will require changes to the file in which the upstream ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

High Availability (HA) refers to the design and implementation of systems that are operational and accessible without significant downtime. HA systems are engineered to overcome failures automatically ...

Our minor departmental ASP.NET app works great in DEV on a web server without SSL. It relies on getting the User's Windows identity from HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name<BR><BR>When we move the ...

Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology journalism. Her work appears in publications including The Semantic Web Blog, RFID Journal, Smart Enterprise ...

In the fast-paced world of the internet, where every second counts and interruptions are a no-go, imagine a behind-the-scenes wizard making sure everything runs smoothly. That wizard is the Open ...