Load balancing spreads the work

Load balancing enable even the largest businesses to deliver reliable, high performance hosting by intelligently spreading the processing demands around several units. No online business can afford downtime and mission critical operations need consistent performance. Load balancing offers the high availability hosting answer.

Keeping you online

Load balancing spreads the load on your servers so you don't overwhelm a single piece of hardware. If you carry out maintenance or your server fails, your customers remain online throughout and their service is unaffected.

The benefits of load balancing

• Intelligent problem detection and transference - if a problem is detected with one of your load balanced web servers, it automatically removes it from the cluster until it is working again. A Dedicated Hosting disaster recovery engineer is immediately notified and the server is quickly remedied.
• Scheduled maintenance - if you need to perform maintenance take servers in and out of the cluster without affecting your clients.
• No single point of failure - load balanced servers work smoothly together and if one fails, the other continues automatically. Your servers are housed in different racks powered by a different phase, further minimising risk of downtime.
• Load sharing management - you choose how much work is processed by each server in the load balancing solution. For a server processing 10% you use a lower spec solution - benefiting from decreased costs in initial investment and wasting less energy.
• Flexibility - at times when you need extra reliability, simply insert servers and remove them when you're done. Great for high profile ad campaigns or seasonal sales.

Layer 4 and Layer 7 options

At Dedicated Hosting we deliver the highest standard Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing. Layer 4 load balancing differentiates information at the level of the IP address. This is great for organisations that want to have a high availability solution without the complexity of balancing resources on anything more than the client making the request.

Layer 7 load balancing can differentiate and divert information at the packet level so information can be manipulated and arranged from an evaluation of the data itself. This enables developers to allocate specific back end servers to perform certain tasks within the web hosting environment such as, deploying servers to deal with static content only whilst the remaining servers handle the dynamic content.

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