Poor man’s load balancing

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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Jun 25, 2012

f you have need to balance traffic among a set of servers and can’t afford a load balancer, you can get fairly effective relief using what is often referred to as “poor man’s load balancing” — an easy trick that you implement on your DNS server.

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Sandra Henry-Stocker

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