"Remote" Load Balancing

[Mornincupofhate]

So I was wondering, is there a way to bridge connections remotely? Like, if I have a server in one city, and another server in another, is it possible to split the network load on one IP address?

[brwainer]

2 hours ago, Mornincupofhate said:

So I was wondering, is there a way to bridge connections remotely? Like, if I have a server in one city, and another server in another, is it possible to split the network load on one IP address?

You can do DNS load balancing, but that only works well for stateless communications because there's no way to guarantee that the user won't change servers halfway through a session. You could also do redirects to the individual servers. 

[AdmnPower]

Are you wanting to load balance between two physical locations for one individual transfer or user session for greater speed, or are you wanting to load balance between the two locations for a situation where you have many concurrent connections from a diverse set of users that would overwhelm one individual location? So for example, if you have a 10 megabit connection at each location are you trying to download a big file at a 3rd location effectively getting some of it from one and some from another so you could potentially download at 20 megabit. Or are you trying to load balance lots of people trying to access something like a website and have too many users connecting at once for just a single web server?