A web hosting company is expanding its services to support high-traffic websites. The company needs to ensure that the resources are evenly distributed across servers to manage dynamic loads effectively. Which solution should the company primarily consider implementing to address this requirement?
Implement a load balancer to manage the distribution of the network traffic across the servers.
Utilize containerization to encapsulate the web applications on a single server.
Set up a server cluster that treats multiple servers as a single system for failover redundancy.
Adopt a serverless computing model to eliminate the need to manage server resources entirely.
Load balancing distributes workload across multiple servers or resources, often to improve responsiveness and availability of applications or websites. This solution is appropriate when there is a need to manage dynamic, uneven loads, and provide redundancy in case one of the servers fails. Clustering, on the other hand, is often used for increasing the availability of services by linking multiple servers so that they behave like a single entity, but it's not primarily responsible for distributing workloads to manage variable traffic levels. Serverless computing abstracts the server layer completely and automatically scales to handle load, but for a web hosting company looking for balanced distribution across their own servers, load balancing is more appropriate. Containerization enables applications to run in isolated user spaces called containers, but it does not directly relate to distributing a workload.
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