About load balancing and synchronization

If there is heavy Web and FTP traffic on an organization's Web site, load balancing helps distribute these requests across multiple hosting servers based on how busy the server is. It helps preventing a single hosting server from getting overwhelmed with requests from such a busy Web site.

Load balancing requires two or more hosting servers connected to the external network through a load-balancing software or hardware device. This load-balancing setup will provide access to applications or resources as though it is a single server, with all of the hosting servers actively serving requests at the same time.

About synchronization between the load-balanced hosting servers

Whenever you make any changes in the load-balanced organization using the control panel, these changes are implemented on the organization's primary hosting server (resource) and then they are synchronized with the secondary load-balanced resource. Therefore, these changes are visible on both primary and secondary resources.

A load-balanced organization is synchronized from the primary to the secondary resource, when:

You can perform the following tasks to use the load balancing feature: