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Load balancer

Meaning in networking & telecommunications, with examples

nounCommon term

In networking & telecommunications, load balancer means: A device or service that spreads incoming traffic across several servers, so that no single server is overloaded and the service stays available if one server fails.

In Turkish: yük dengeleyici, load balancer

How it is used

Used by network, server and cloud teams. Servers are put behind a load balancer, which runs health checks and removes unhealthy servers from the pool. Engineers talk about layer 4 and layer 7 load balancers and about methods such as round robin.

Example sentences

  1. The load balancer marked two web servers as down after their health checks failed.

  2. We'll add a third server behind the load balancer before the campaign starts.

Common collocations

  • behind a load balancer
  • load balancer pool
  • health check
  • layer 7 load balancer
  • load-balancing method
  • redundancyHaving extra devices, links or power supplies in place so that the network keeps working if one of them fails.
  • failoverAutomatic switching to a backup device, link or system when the main one fails, so that the service continues with little or no interruption.
  • hostAny device on a network that has an IP address and sends or receives data, such as a computer, server, phone or printer.
  • firewallA hardware device or software that checks network traffic against a set of rules and allows or blocks it, protecting a network from unwanted access.
  • bottleneckThe point in a network or system where capacity is lowest, so it limits the speed of everything that passes through it, like the narrow neck of a bottle.

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