Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a feature of Windows and IIS that allows multiple hosts to host the same website. The NLB cluster distributes all traffic to the cluster to the individual hosts.
NLB provides both scalability and fault tolerance. If you add additional nodes, the cluster is able to handle more traffic. And if a node should fail, the other remaining nodes take the traffic, albeit at a potentially lower performance level.
NLB is a versatile feature. You can use NLB to load balance web, FTP, firewall, proxy, and VPN traffic. Performance is acceptable although many users prefer to use hardware load balancers.
In this recipe, you create a new NLB cluster (ReskitNLB) which loads balances between two hosts (NLB1, NLB2). The recipe creates a simple single page site on each system and load balances the site.
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