An article over at Informit.com explains how to use Linux Virtual Server (LVS) for load balancing web, e-mail, and streaming media traffic. Using LVS, you can scale your web site using a cluster of servers using network load balancing. LVS is the free alternative to paying tens of thousands of dollars for a commercial solution like Cisco's LocalDirector. Another advantage of LVS is that, unlike Microsoft network load balancing clusters, LVS allows y..
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