What is Load Balancing?

What is Load Balancing?

What is Load Balancing?

Modified on: Wed, 18 Mar, 2026, 3:19 PM

Load balancing is the process of distributing workloads across multiple computing resources—such as servers, networks, CPUs, or storage systems—to improve performance and reliability.
Its primary objectives are to:
  1. Optimize resource utilization
  1. Maximize throughput
  1. Minimize response time
  1. Prevent any single resource from becoming overloaded
By distributing workloads across multiple components instead of relying on a single system, load balancing also improves availability and reliability through redundancy.

What Is a Load Balancer?

A load balancer is a hardware or software component that distributes incoming requests across multiple backend servers in a cluster. It uses defined rules or scheduling algorithms to determine how traffic is allocated.

Impact on LinkFixer Advanced

While load balancing is beneficial for overall system performance, it can interfere with LinkFixer Advanced processes when accessing data on a document server.
For this reason, it is recommended to remove or bypass load balancers when running LinkFixer Advanced processes to ensure consistent and reliable operation.