Load balancing is used very heavily these days. Many websites are using these techniques so that the servers are not over loaded. You can use many load balancing techniques to enable your users to access your websites without a hick. If load balancing is not implemented some of the servers will be overloaded and the other servers will be free. There are two main types of load balancing used today and they are software and hardware load balancing. Different software’s and web servers can be used for load balancing. Apache Web Server is an example of a software which can be used for load balancing. Hardware devices can also be used for load balancing. Hardware devices are more efficient than software methods.