Load Balancer
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What is Load Balancer?
A load balancer is a device or software that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to prevent any single server from becoming overwhelmed. By spreading the workload, load balancers improve application availability, responsiveness, and fault tolerance. They can operate at Layer 4 (based on IP and TCP/UDP) or Layer 7 (based on application-level data like HTTP headers and URLs).
Free resources to learn Load Balancer
More in stage 16: High Availability
Load Balancer: common questions
Can I learn Load Balancer in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Load Balancer in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Load Balancer tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 135 of 195 in the free Network Engineer roadmap, in stage 16, High Availability. If you are new to Network Engineer, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.