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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Aby on January 02, 2014, 06:39:47 am
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How to Set Up DNS Load Balancing
DNS records can provide a way of building a simple load balancer to distribute site visitors across several IP addresses, each one serving identical content. If more than one IP address is connected to a site, visitors will be sent to one of the connected IP addresses in order. Although this is a helpful way to serve more visitors and prevent the site from going down if one server fails, DNS load balancing remains a very simple algorithm that does not account for geography, network congestions, or user IP address (among others).
To setup DNS Load balancing fill out the site’s A records with @ in the hostname, directing users to the main domain, and with the correct IP in the IP Address field. Your set up should look something like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/FWn6x.png?1)