Load Balancing
Maintain High-availability Hosting
Load balancing is essential for high-traffic websites to avoid overloading the connected resources. Load balancing is also cost-effective. The last thing any type business wants is to overload any one server or suffer slower response times.
Businesses can achieve greater use of resources and decrease computing time. If your business involves large amounts of data processing and transfer, the benefits of load balancing are numerous:
Benefits of Load Balancing:
- Intercept incoming traffic: share it across multiple available servers so no single point of failure can ever impact your website.
- Failsafe solution: automatically bypass any failed server to use secondary servers and keep service protected even when challenged by server downtime due to server failure or server maintenance.
- Automatically offload tasks: fine-tune your traffic flow and make the procedure seamless to the end user.
- Multiple servers: function as a single server allowing simultaneous requests to be accomplished more productively, enhancing output and efficiency.
- Shorten response time: ensures continuity through redundancy, the duplication of critical components of a system.
| Features | Plan 1 | Plan 2 | Plan 3 | Plan 4 | Dedicated Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $49.00/mo | $89.00/mo | $129.00/mo | $219.00/mo | $599.00/mo |
| Setup Fee | $19.00 | $29.00 | $49.00 | $99.00 | $199.00 |
| IPs Allotted | 2 IPs | 5 IPs | 10 IPs | 20 IPs | 100 IPs |
| Shared Device | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Throughput | 2.5 Mbps | 5 Mbps | 10 Mbps | 20 Mbps | 100 Mbps |
| Connections per Second | 50 | 100 | 200 | 400 | 2000 |
| Concurrent Connections | 2,500 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 100,000 |
Scalability is enhanced through load balancing while streamlining operations. If the load increases, a number of servers can be added behind the load balancer to distribute the additional load. The benefit is that more work gets done in the same amount of time.
Load balancing can also be accompanied by managed firewall to keep your server secure and safeguard against Internet threats before they reach your hosted server and data. Without firewall protection, the confidentiality of your data could be compromised. Even if a business does not lose valuable data during an attack, you can suffer downtime and loss of money from repairs of the computer system. Equally important, you could lose customers from your lack of availability to them. Managed hosting includes the option to customize your Load Balancing set-up and configuration.
