Are you confused about choosing server clustering or load balancing service? Here are some important facts about the two. When you talk about server clustering and load balancing, the terms are actually similar; there are very slight differences between the two. Clustering can be regarded as the capacity of software product to facilitate load-balancing services while load balancing is most of the times is a hardware-based (or at least third-party software) solution.

Some important facts about server clustering are that they are mostly made available by data center India as an enterprise package and do not require much of networking skills. Server clustering services are also generally more affordable. However they do not have high availability; moreover they require node agents on various managed application server instances.

Load balancing on the other hand comes with high availability; it also comes with additional value like optimization, security as well as transparency. It most of the times adds up another infrastructure piece to the architecture and is known to be expensive as compared to clustering solutions offered at data center in India.