Unfortunately, MySQL Proxy and its CentOS package are not well documented. It requires some ingenuity to configure it and get started. Here are some tips to aid you ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

Reverse proxy startup ngrok Inc. today debuted a GSLB, or global server load balancing, tool that promises to speed up application response times and reduce the risk of outages. The network traffic ...

Thus, in order to get the ability of load balancing, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer have to be present in the server. Do not enable proxying until you have secured your server. Open proxy servers ...

Not sure if this is best here, Networking or Linux, but here goes... I'm looking to build a Linux (CentOS) reverse proxy to front an application server cluster. We currently have IIS performing this ...

Oracle has released the latest version of its distributed in-memory data grid product, Oracle Coherence 3.7. Coherence is designed to improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of ...

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

Many enterprise organizations are talking to IT staff about moving into the cloud environment and/or using virtual machines to take advantage of greater scalability. Being able to access more ...

Proxies are great for web scraping and improving network performance. But using one comes with risks and limitations.