Facebook's load balancing act by the numbers

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Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Tue, 06/23/2009 - 12:02pm

Some of Facebook's recent feature launches have brought in a crazy amount of traffic. How does the site balance it?


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Site Balancing

Posted by Frank More on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 8:30am.

They probably use load balancers to split the traffic amongst the servers. On the subject of load balancing, why not get the highest availability while not getting caught in high prices? Kemp’s got some great load balancers that are low priced and high in quality:

http://www.kemptechnologies.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=pv&utm_content=zs&utm_campaign=home

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