Save on a Load Balancer By Using Client Side Load Balancing

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 4:28PM
Todd Hoff in Load Balancing, Strategy, startup

In Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications author Lei Zhu suggests a very interesting approach to load balancing: forget DNS round robbin, toss your expensive load balancer, and make your client do the load balancing for you. Your client maintains a list of possible servers and cycles through them. All the details are explained in the article, but it's an intriguing idea, especially for the budget conscious startup.

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).