Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started 1. Introduction 2. How websites work: what makes them slow 3. Content Caching: keeping the load light 4. DNS based load balancing 5. Content Delivery Networks 6. Planning for Performance and Reliability Part II: Load Balancing Essentials 7. Essential concepts you need to know 8. HTTP load balancing 9. Database load balancing 10. Load balancing your network connection 11. SSL Load Balancing Part III: Load balancing situations 12. Clustering the Load Balancers for High Availability 13. Load balancing in the cloud 14. IPv6: Implications and concepts 15. Where to go next... Appendix 1: Common Terms and Concepts

About the Author

Hailing from the U.K., Peter Membrey has worked for Red Hat, holds a RHCE certification, and worked and taught at a number of educational institutions since the beginning of his career. He knows what Linux users like and need, and hopes that CentOS will get the kudos it deserves. He lives in Hong Kong and is teaching and consulting on all matters to do with Linux Enterprise networking, while studying for his master's degree.