The process of distributing requests across multiple nodes, to more efficiently handle the overall load. Load balancing can optimize the response time for each request. Sitefinity can run in a load balanced environment, commonly referred to as web farm, to improve the performance and availability of application. The main components of a load-balanced setup are the load balancer and multiple server nodes that are hosting an application. The load balancer’s main task is to dynamically decide which node processes the incoming requests.