The round-robin algorithm is often used as a simple-yet-effective method of distributing requests to a single-point-of-entry to multiple servers in the background. It’s used by DNS servers, peer-to-peer networks, and many other multiple-node clusters/networks.
In a nutshell, round-robin algorithms pair an incoming request to a specific machine by cycling (or, more specifically, circling) through a list [...]
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Weighted Round-Robin DNS Solutions?
Published by January 31st, 2008 in Programming, Software 3 CommentsServer Move Completed – NeoSmart Technologies Fully Optimized!
Published by October 19th, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software 3 CommentsWe’ve been working on moving to a new server all week, and we’ve just finished the transition. Best of all, we’ve switched to the new servers without any downtime in-between. Our new server is a 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo and with 3GB of DDR2 RAM – all thanks to the awesome guys and gals [...]
They invented XML for a reason… So why doesn’t anybody use it? eXtensible Markup Language is the perfect format for storing configuration files and settings for many different reasons. Most obviously, it’s very clear and straight-forward. There are no two-ways about any piece of information or data. You get what you want, when you need [...]
