Load balancer (Networking)
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↑ https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-load-balancer/#overview
Load balancing across multiple application instances is a commonly used technique for optimizing resource utilization, maximizing throughput, reducing latency, and ensuring fault‑tolerant configurations.
Load balancing in Nginx is configured using upstream
directive.[1]
Related terms
See also
- HTTP, HTTP client, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, HSTS CSR, TLS, SSL,
openSSL
, WebSockets, WebRTC,ssl_certificate
QUIC, HPKP, CT, List of HTTP status codes, URL redirection, Content-type:, Webhook, HTTP headers,--insecure
, Axios HTTP client, HTTP cookies, HTTP ETag - Proxy servers:
Squid
, Reverse proxy,Nginx
,HAProxy
,Varnish
, Load balancer, Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), Symantec proxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG), Traefik, tinyproxy, Proxyrack, Luminati Networks, SOCKS, Envoy Proxy - Traefik
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