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Question about routing requests

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Isocene

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Say you have 10 servers that are available for clients to hit. What is the technology called that allows you to have one server name and distributes requests to the servers based on each machines workload (or other things?)
 
Originally posted by: Isocene
Is this the same thing as router spray?
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Load balancing is the term. Or more appropriate layer7 or application layer switch.

The switch accepts web requests (or whatever service/port you are running) on whatever IP addresses you assign, and then it directs those requests to a pool of servers. All the while monitoring response and uptime and balancing accordingly. Extremely common.

As a side affect you use these devices to offload SSL encryption so the server doesn't have to do it. If you want to get fancy you can get into global stuff where they all work together across the globe to direct traffic where it needs to be by geography/load. All transparent to the client. Definately a layer7 device. the nice thing is they all do this in hardware, much faster than any processor system could ever do.

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Anybody that calls this "router spray" you can immediately dismiss them as a dumbass.
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