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by Eelco Plugge, David Hows, Peter Membrey
Practical Load Balancing: Ride the Performance Tiger
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Dedication
Contents at a Glance
Contents
About the Authors
About the Technical Reviewers
Special Thanks to serverlove
Acknowledgments
Preface
Target Audience
Book Structure
Downloading the Code
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
The Problem
The Solution
What Is Load Balancing?
Load Balancing, Finally
Summary
CHAPTER 2: How Web Sites Work
Let the Games Commence!
Taking a Closer Look
The Network
HTML and the Web
Web Content
Databases: The Weakest Link
Summary
CHAPTER 3: Content Caching: Keeping the Load Light
What Is a Cache?
Whistle Stop Tour
Caching Theory: Why Is It so Hard?
Web Proxies
Edge-based Caching: Introducing Varnish
Summary
CHAPTER 4: DNS Load Balancing
DNS Details
DNS in Depth
DNS Caching
BIND9
DNS Load Balancing
Summary
CHAPTER 5: Content Delivery Networks
Choosing a CDN Provider
Getting Started with Rackspace
Adding Content to Your CDN Account
The Rackspace Cloud Files API
Summary
CHAPTER 6: Planning for Performance and Reliability
yoU MAke DInner In TiME
Backups
Summary
CHAPTER 7: Load Balancing Basics
What Is Load Balancing?
What Computing Resources Are Available?
Load Balancing in Practice
Guiding Principles
Summary
CHAPTER 8: Load Balancing Your Web Site
Measuring Web Server Performance
Accelerating Apache HTTP
Accelerating nginx
Load Balancing Your Web Server
Best of Both Worlds
Summary
CHAPTER 9: Load Balancing Your Database
Setting up the MySQL Cluster
Applying Load Balancing
Summary
CHAPTER 10: Network Load Balancing
Sharing the Workload
TCP/IP
Routing
The Load Balancer
IPVS
IPVSADM
Expanding IPVS
Advanced IPVS
Making It Stick
Summary
CHAPTER 11: SSL Load Balancing
What are SSL and TLS?
Public-Key Cryptography
Trust and Certificate Authorities
TLS Encryption
TLS Load Balancing
Configuring SSL on Your Web Server
SSL Acceleration
Nginx
SSL Termination
Configuring Nginx
Testing the SSL
Further Configurations
LVS and Your SSL Terminator
Integrated Load Balancer/SSL Terminator
Summary
CHAPTER 12: Clustering for High Availability
High Availability
Single Point of Failure
Clustering
IPVS Failover
Testing
Web Server Specifics
Advanced Config Options
Summary
CHAPTER 13: Load Balancing in the Cloud
Cloud Computing
Virtualization
Virtualized Resources
Managing Virtual Resources
Cloud Elasticity
Working with a Cloud Server
Summary
CHAPTER 14: IPv6: Implications and Concepts
IPv6
Hexadecimal Notation
Truncation
IPv4 Exhaustion
Approach to IPv6
Advantages of IPv6
Implementation
Internet Connection
DNS
Operating System
Networking
Application Support
Summary
CHAPTER 15: Where to Go Next…
Recap
Monitoring
Security
Operating System Performance
Planning
Summary
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