DNS Load Balancing Vs. Hardware Load Balancing

DNS Load Balancing Vs. Hardware Load Balancing

Asking most IT professionals if they would like a low cost, high-performance load balancer that will never have to be replaced due to ancient hardware is kind of like asking Charlie Sheen if he is winning…of course!

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Taking advantage of the DNS layer for load balancing offers the consumer the ability to load balance anything that is issued a DNS name (which these days is virtually any core system), whether it be web servers, SMTP servers, SNMP servers, etc. This allows for round-robin load balancing based on the DNS records returned for the name query.

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