I've done this for dozens of clients, ranging from small shops to high-profile Web sites. Anyone who has ever administered a load balancer will probably back me up on this point.
Load balancers are an integral part of today's Web infrastructure.
They're also complex and underdocumented pieces of hardware. In this article I will explain the reasons why load balancers get the blame and what you can do about it. The Beast Today's Web sites are complex beasts. Every component must work together to create a site that is greater than the sum of its parts. Figure 1 represents a fairly typical Web site installation and in it you can see how complex the average Web site has become.