Load Balancing Solutions
Manage Traffic, Speed and Redundancy
How Important Is Your Web Site?
When your business Web site provides mission-critical data or is your main revenue source, slow response times and potential hardware failures are not an option. Protect your business with a customized load balancing solution from Hostway.
If your entire Web site resides on a single server, it only takes one traffic surge to slow response times or a single hardware failure to bring your business to a halt. Load balancing eliminates both problems by using multiple servers to house your data. No single point of failure can bring your Web site down.
The Load Balancing Advantage
Load balancing spreads the work of your dedicated server among two or more servers, optimizing resources, output and response times. If your server fails in any way, requests are routed to other server(s) according to preset criteria — eliminating downtime.
Load balancing gives you:
- Failsafe performance that can’t be achieved by a single server
- Faster system response times for a better customer experience
- Improved availability to critical applications
- Guaranteed server uptime
Two Reasons You Need Load Balancing:
1. Cost effective load allocation — expanding horizontally by balancing the load among servers is more reliable and cost effective than vertical scaling solutions
2. Increased redundancy — effective method of implementing a redundant system
Foundry
An entry-level switch series, the ServerIron 4G series features the industry's most feature-rich and affordable switches with support for a broad range of IP-based applications. The ServerIron 4G series offers an integrated purpose-built Web Firewall to protect enterprises’ Web-enabled applications from service disruption and compromises of sensitive information.
Previously only accessible to large enterprises because of price, the SeverIron 4G switch series now give small and mid-sized business the benefits of powerful data-center class resiliency features and hardware-based security.
Linux Virtual Server
A virtual server is a highly scalable and available server built on a cluster of real servers that is fully transparent to end users, so the cluster system works like a single high-performance virtual server. The real servers and the load balancers may be interconnected by either high-speed LAN or by geographically dispersed WAN.
Flexible and transparent, the load balancers can dispatch requests to the different servers and make parallel services of the cluster to appear as a virtual service on a single IP address. Request dispatching can use IP load balancing technologies or application-level load balancing technologies. To increase scalability, nodes can be transparently added or removed in the cluster. High availability is provided by detecting node or daemon failures and reconfiguring the system appropriately.
Example Load Balancing Solution
With two purpose-built load balancers (layer 4-7 application switches) the solution in this example provides acceleration, security and high availability for mission-critical applications.
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