Load Balancer Clustering
It is a technique that helps in enabling or deploying numerous load balancers together to operate as a single logical unit. This helps in ensuring system resilience and reliability. In this technique two or more load balancers work together to efficiently distribute the incoming traffic across resouces available. This redundancy helps in maintaining availability and uptime of the application as the traffic can be redirected easily to other healthy Load Balancers incase of a load balancer crash
How to handle a Load Balancer crash?
Load Balancer crash refers to a sudden failure of a load-balancing system that helps in distributing the network traffic across multiple servers and resources of a system.
This crash disrupts the even and balanced distribution of traffic and resources, which leads to service outages and more amount of pressure or strain on the remaining resources, which leads to other potential failures. Some of the ways to prevent or handle Load Balancer crashes are:
Important Ways to Prevent Load Balancer Crash
- Redundancy and Failover:
- Health Checks:
- Load Balancer Clustering:
- DNS Round Robin:
- Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB):
- Monitoring and Alerting:
- Manual Intervention:
- Regular Maintenance:
- Backup Load Balancer Configuration:
- Load Testing and Redundant Capacity:
- Conclusion:
Contact Us