Eliminate Downtime with Linux Load Balancing

Many businesses are consistently experiencing levels of downtime that prevent them from excelling in their industries. Downtime cost the UK economy £2.7billion in 2008, but even short periods of interruption are taking their toll.

Sainsbury's lost £1million in a single downtime occurrence last year - proof that technical competence and robust hardware can impact the bottom line for any company.

How do you minimise the risk of downtime?

You can eliminate downtime by working with a hosting provider that places high availability, reliability and customer service at the top of its priorities and offers solutions that deliver this.

Load balancing reinforces the performance and reliability of your mission critical hosting so that you don't suffer from unacceptable downtime.

Essentially, 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.

And for the top level of data security we even provide Linux load balancing across two locations. At UKFast we deliver the highest standard Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing.

Get high availability for your business call us now on 0800 458 4545 or request a Linux load balancing online quote.

The benefits of Linux load balancing from UKFast

• 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 UKFast disaster recovery engineer is immediately notified and the server is quickly load balancing again.
• Necessary 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.
• Flexibility, specify how the load is shared - you choose how much work is processed by each server in the load balancing solution, reducing costs and energy usage.
• Scalability, add and remove servers - 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.