Software and Hardware Load Balancing
Learn about software load balancer, reverse proxy server, akamai, and hardware load balancer.
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Software load balancer
Software load balancing is the low-cost approach. It uses an application to listen for requests and dole them out across the pool of instances. This application is basically a reverse proxy server, as shown in the figure below.
Reverse proxy server
A normal proxy multiplexes many outgoing calls into a single source IP address. A reverse proxy server does the opposite: it demultiplexes calls coming ...