Hi All
This is probably a really stupid question, but I am wondering about the
following:
If you have a very busy website, you probably want more than one server
so access to the site is possible by a very large number of people
simultaneously. I assume in such a case one would have several
webservers, all of which have the same name, but a different IP address.
For the Apache webserver, in httpd.conf, you would then give them all
the same ServerName. But how is traffic spread between, say, 10 servers
i.e. which mechanism decides that a page request by a client from the
website is requested from machine 1 or machine 2 or machine 3 etc?
Or is there another mechanism by which access by a large number of
people to a webserver is facilitated?
There's probably a very easy answer, but still, I have to confess I
don't know and I like to find out.
Thanks
Hugo
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