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Old 03-03-2005, 07:03 PM  
European Lee
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Quote:
Originally Posted by L0stMind
E Lee - round robin is not a load balancing solution. At all.

It is a nice and cheap trick and useful at times, but dont confuse people by calling it a load balancing solution - it's nowhere close to one.
What is it then?

Its about sharing the load being put on a specific ip/server at any given time, spreading the work across multiple servers instead of having a single server do everything.

Sure sounds like its 'balancing' out to me ;)

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...d+robin+server

Regards,

Lee
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