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Load Balanced Solutions

Load Balancing - Do You Need It?

Do you need your web site to have zero downtime?
Do you need guaranteed performance with complete scalability?
Do you need a cost effective solution?

Today's hardware is very capable of handling all but the most demanding Web Applications on a single box. As server load increases however this hardware needs to be constantly upgraded, and with increased costs, diminishing ROI and scheduled downtime, hardware upgrades can quickly become an inefficient solution. High-end multi processor servers and can be very costly, and license costs per CPU can increase dramatically. With high availability and reliability requirements, can you still afford a single point of failure?

If a single Web or Application server simply does not meet your traffic and uptime guarantees, DediPower can design a load balanced solution for you. Complete scalability, highly availability, and cost effective with high ROI, Load balancing provides benefits at every level of the solution.

Sharing the Load - How it Works

When a request is made for a page, the request is sent to a virtual IP. This request is then load balanced depending response server load, response time, or on a simple static weight. One of the application servers in the solution then serves this request. Each server is able to function on its own, with the exception of a shared database.

Load Balanced Solution 1

For exceptional Web Application traffic management, the highest levels of uptime and complete scalability, hardware load balancing is the only option.

With this solution server load is dynamically load balanced. The hardware load balancer monitors the performance and availability of your servers in the cluster. Using this monitoring ensures requests are only sent to servers capable of servicing them as efficiently as possible.

Figure 3 shows how the process works graphically.


Standard Features

A shared hardware load balanced solution from DediPower includes:

A single virtual cluster on the hardware load balancer
2 Application Servers
Optional Database Server
Choice of Operating System
APC Remote Reboot ports
Private LAN
24x7 Support

Load Balanced Solution 2

Large scale Web Applications that can demand millions of connections per hour. A dedicated hardware load-balancing solution from DediPower can save time, money and worry with zero downtime, complete scalability and minimal download delays.

Standard Features

A dedicated hardware load balanced solution from DediPower includes:

Support for up to eight virtual clusters on the hardware load balancer
Multiple Application or Web Servers
One or more Database Servers
Choice of Operating System
APC Remote Reboot ports
Private Gigabyte LAN
24x7 Support