High performance, affordable load balancers
Downtime translates into huge losses in terms of opportunity, productivity, customer confidence, and goodwill. In today's competitive market high availability and peak performance are paramount for the success of large and small businesses alike; downtime cannot be tolerated at any level.
Perfect for web or FTP solutions, load balancers reduce the risk of downtime, increase productivity and improve server efficiency by keeping your mission critical applications available 100% of the time.
How does load balancing work exactly?
Load balancing works by spreading the load across all your servers in a cluster so you don't overwhelm a single piece of hardware.
So if you carry out maintenance or if a server should fail, another server is there to take over the load, which means your customers remain online throughout and service is unaffected.
UKFast load balancing is carried out at layer 4 and layer 7, ensuring maximum throughput and performance, plus intelligent traffic routing. The load balancers are configured as a redundant pair and located in independent racks being fed by separate power feeds. Thus ensuring an increased level of resilience in the solution. And for increased data security we provide load balancing across two locations.
The benefits of load balancing:
✔ High availability / Failover - if a problem is detected with one of your load balanced servers, it automatically removes it from the cluster until it is working again.
✔ High performance - if you need to perform maintenance take servers in and out of the cluster without affecting your clients.
✔ Multi layer traffic management - carried out at OSI layers 2 (data link), 3 (network), 4 (transport), and 5 (session) which ensures maximum throughput and performance, while traffic management - which is done at OSI layer 7 (application) - ensures that server-specific content is appropriately routed.
✔ 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.
✔ Cost and energy consumption savings - you choose how much work is processed by each server in the load balancing solution, reducing costs and energy usage.
✔ Flexible and scalable solutions - 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.
Talk to our load balancing experts today and increase your failover capabilites, call 0800 458 4545 or request a load balancer quote.
UKFast load balancing
UKFast's load balance servers use top-quality components designed to deliver outstanding application delivery, high performance, scalability and the flexible management of online services for a wide range of budgets.
All load balanced solutions are managed and administrated by our technical experts, giving you the time to focus on what you do best.
Delivering a seamless, uninterrupted and unaffected experience to your customers at all times ensures a better customer experience and translates into more business. Talk to our load balancing experts today and improve your efficiency.
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