Load Balancing

When your business Web site provides mission-critical data or is your primary revenue source, slow response times and potential hardware failures are not an option. A Load Balancing Solution is your answer, to protect your business mission-critical data. When your entire Web site is hosted 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.

Load balancing spreads the work of your dedicated server over two or more servers, optimizing resources, output and response times. If your server fails in any way, requests are routed to the other server(s) in the balancer to eliminating downtime.

The Advantage of Load Balancing :

• Failsafe performance superior to a single server
• Faster system response times.
• Improved availability to critical applications
• Improved reliability
• Increased redundancy
• Guaranteed server uptime

Load balancers are transparent, and 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. To increase scalability, nodes can be transparently added or removed in the cluster. The most common supported protocols are http / https / smtp and pop3.

Example Load Balancing Solution :