Tag: load balancing

What are Different Types of Load Balancing

Luckily, there are several different types of load balancing to choose from. Each has its own benefits, but all are effective and affordable. With DNS Failover, Round Robin, Weighted Rounded Robin, or Latency Routing, you can easily decide which solution best fits your organization’s unique needs.

Load balancer Round Robin VS weighted round robin

Round Robin vs. Weighted Round Robin Load Balancing

Basic Round Robin distributes traffic evenly across multiple servers. You can think of it as a rotor that cyclically returns one endpoint at a time. For instance, if you had two or more records (A, AAAA, ANAME, CNAME) with the same name configured to point to different IP addresses, then queries will have a 50/50 chance of being returned by either of the IPs in your configuration.

How To Avoid Downtime With DNS Failover and Load Balancing

If you want redundancy at every point of failure, Failover with Secondary DNS is the way to go. With this option, you can configure a backup DNS provider and you’ll essentially have an extra set of authoritative name servers.