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Content Delivery Presentation Server load balancing

Implement load balancing by replicating your Web site and implementing a load balancer on top of the Web sites.

If the load on your Web site machine is getting too heavy, you may want to consider copying the Web site to multiple machines and directing Web site visitors to the machine that is least busy. This is known as load balancing.

In a load balancing scenario, SDL Web publishes the content to your Presentation Server and Presentation Server database, and you create copies of the Web site on different machines. So to implement load balancing, you implement the copying of the published Web site from that machine to your other machines, and implement the load balancing between those machines.

Note that load balancing does require you to synchronize the various caches on the various machines. Use the Cache Channel Service to synchronize those caches.