A popular website can receive far more traffic than any single server could reliably handle alone. Load balancing solves this by spreading that traffic across several servers working together.
A load balancer sits in front of a group of servers, receiving all incoming traffic first. It then distributes each request to whichever server is best positioned to handle it — often based on current load or a simple rotation.
Load balancers can detect when a server stops responding and automatically stop sending it traffic within seconds — visitors never notice the failure since traffic simply reroutes to healthy servers.
If one server in the pool fails, a load balancer automatically stops sending it traffic and reroutes to the remaining healthy servers — visitors experience no interruption, since the failure is handled transparently.
NOXEL360's infrastructure is built to handle traffic reliably as usage grows, distributing load rather than depending on any single server.
No — smaller sites with modest traffic typically run fine on a single server; load balancing becomes valuable once traffic or reliability needs grow.
The load balancer detects the failure and stops routing traffic to it, redirecting requests to remaining healthy servers automatically.
No, though related — a CDN distributes cached content geographically; load balancing distributes live traffic across a pool of active servers.
A simple method that cycles through available servers evenly, sending each new request to the next server in sequence.
Yes — by preventing any single server from becoming overwhelmed, requests are processed faster than they would be on one overloaded machine.
Many do, built into the platform by default, removing the need to configure it manually for typical use cases.
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