Post by juju on Feb 21, 2006 22:37:25 GMT -5
A group of servers used to balance heavy request loads coming into a single DNS (domain name server) and IP (Internet Protocol) address. Instead of forwarding all Web browser requests for a page’s content to a single server, the requests are spread out among several machines for that specific URL (universal resource locator). Web farm setups are also good for providing content and service backup in case one server in the group fails.