We often hear that customer ask for load balance feature in M2M Router.
Many M2M&IoT applications are in need of load balance feature. So what is load balance?
Load Balance refers to efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across a group of backend servers, also known as a server farm or server pool.
Modern high-traffic websites must serve hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of concurrent requests from users or clients and return the correct text, images, video, or application data, all in a fast and reliable manner. To cost-effectively scale to meet these high volumes, modern computing best practice generally requires adding more servers.
A load balancer acts as the ¡°traffic cop¡± sitting in front of your servers and routing client requests across all servers capable of fulfilling those requests in a manner that maximizes speed and capacity utilization and ensures that no one server is overworked, which could degrade performance. If a single server goes down, the load balancer redirects traffic to the remaining online servers. When a new server is added to the server group, the load balancer automatically starts to send requests to it.
In this manner, a load balancer performs the following functions:
Distributes client¡¯s requests or network load efficiently across multiple servers
Ensures high availability and reliability by sending requests only to servers that are online
Provides the flexibility to add or subtract servers as demand dictates
Different load balancing algorithms provide different benefits; the choice of load balancing method depends on your needs:
Round Robin ¨C Requests are distributed across the group of servers sequentially.
Least Connections ¨C A new request is sent to the server with the fewest current connections to clients. The relative computing capacity of each server is factored into determining which one has the least connections.
IP Hash ¨C The IP address of the client is used to determine which server receives the request.
Where to buy a M2M router supporting Load Balance? Do not hesitate to take a short view of website of E-Lins Technology Co., Limited, which developed many series routers that can support load balance.
