But addressing these factors will give you a good foundation and help narrow your list of alternatives. You can then use more detailed information to make good choices about the performance, scalability, redundancy and management features you desire. Feedback Tell us your thoughts on this article or the issues raised in it. When you click Submit, you'll be taken back to this article. Load balancing forum Discuss load balancing with Mark Hoover, author of our article on load balancing trends.
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All nine products we tested improved Web server performance significantly, making it tough to select a single winner. But in the end, the fastest product under the greatest load, Resonate's Central Dispatch, won our Blue Ribbon Award. Interactive buyer's guide Find a product that best matches your criteria, compare two or more load balancers in several categories or download a spreadsheet with all the product data. See what they decided on and why. Hoover is the president of Acuitive, a network consultancy specializing in IP-related services and network management and operations.