NewsForge: Building a Linux Virtual Server

“With the explosive growth of the Internet, the workload on
servers providing Web, email, and media services has increased
greatly. More and more sites are being challenged to keep up with
the growing demands and are employing several techniques to avoid
overloading their servers. Building a scalable server on a cluster
of computers is one of the solutions that is being effectively put
to use. With such a cluster, the increasing requests can be easily
managed by simply adding one or more new servers to the existing
cluster as required. In this article we will look at setting up one
such scalable, network load-balancing server cluster using a
virtual server via the Linux Virtual Server Project.

“The main advantage of using LVS is that unlike Microsoft
network load-balancing clusters, the LVS allows you to add a node
running any operating system that supports TCP/IP to the
cluster…”

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