Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:27 pm
There are several devices that act as dedicated load balancers, however they can be very expensive to use and setup. Define better, dedicated load balancers are easier to setup, do all the stuff behind the scenes for you, might have more methods for load balancing, and extra features. This is because they are designed to be user friendly from the outset and are deigned to be dedicated load balancers. However for the nice user interface you sacrifice a lot of the control of the MikroTik as well as all the tools it places into your hands, and end up spending significantly more for it.
You could also setup a separate RB as a load balancer, just having it combined into one box means there are less devices to go wrong or log into, and as long as you aren't at 100% CPU there is headroom to grow for extra bandwidth.