A load balancer helps distribute tasks between one or more machines. A load balancer often issues requests to one or more web servers; however, web technologies are not the only thing load balancers work with. Load balancers use health checks to determine which node they send traffic to based on the availability of each node. A health check can either be HTTP, HTTPS or TCP based. This document covers a health check in depth. Adding a load balancer is simple. You can add a load balancer in one......