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Old 03-04-2004
Sandro Mangovski
 
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Default Re: are load balancing and mirroring similar concepts?

Ben wrote:

So in other words, when load balancing is done, the servers
> have to contain same copies of pages (which makes it identical to
> mirroring). Am i right?
>

Not necessarilly and not often (correct me if I am wrong). Load balancing is
usually implemented on cluster systems where nodes run their local copies
of web server software but web pages are stored on some shared external
disk array.


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