Web Farms

A web farm is a group of two or more servers used to host the same site. Web farms can significantly increase the capacity of a web site and improve its availability. Web Farms are used for high-traffic websites mainly.

Web Farms are used in situations where your website has a lot of traffic, if your web site is high traffic and one server cannot handle it your website may slow and you could potentially lose a lot of traffic. With a web farm the load is balanced between your servers increasing the capacity of your website and increasing its overall performance.

As well as this, web farms are very useful when it comes to malfunctions. If one server malfunctions another server on your web farm can take over as the primary server, keeping your web site running and creating no down time for you or your customers on your Magento Solution.