The research the community asks of you is the research to *answer* your question, not to *ask* it. I freely accept that you've done enough research to find out what load-balancing options are generally available, but if you hadn't done that I suspect the question would look like "*I need to know about load balancers, please help me*" and would already have been closed. What we're looking for you to do is research towards *answering the question as asked*, so that we don't duplicate work you've already done. If you haven't done any such work, then a downvote may be appropriate. But as others have already noted, the question as written could have a whole book by way of answer - see, eg, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000509.do - and is thus almost certainly too broad for SF. [Our guidelines][1] are fairly clear on that: > Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an > entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much. [1]: https://serverfault.com/help/dont-ask