Managed Services
Shared and Dedicated Server Load Balancing
Natural Insight, a hosted/SaaS task management solution for merchandisers and retailers, is growing fast and needed a fault-tolerant server load balancing solution that was both flexible and scalable.
Load balancing technologies are the basis for providing reliable, responsive and efficient web applications. Load balancing enables you to distribute web traffic to two or more servers, physical or virtual, to optimize resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload.
Hosting.com's Load Balancing services are offered as "shared" or "dedicated" providing web server traffic management services, including monitoring of the local balancer's status, a hot back-up spare, and installation of vendor patches and upgrades, as available, from a single location based on defined traffic distribution policies.
Hosting.com provides the hardware and software necessary for load balancing as part of Hosting.com equipment. Our load balancing vendors are F5 BIG-IP LTM (Shared and Dedicated) and Coyote Point Equalizer (Dedicated).
- Shared service is available to multiple customers on a shared architecture of redundant web switches.
- Dedicated service provides a dedicated architecture to one Customer. Also available as a High Availability (HA) pair.
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Server Load Balancing Feature Matrix |
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24x7x365 Fully managed and monitored by the Hosting.com Network Operations Center (NOC) |
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Predictable, reliable, and consistent application performance |
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Flexible traffic management algorithms |
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Improved end user satisfaction |
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Source IP-based session persistence |
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HTTP cookie-based (non-HTTPS) session persistence |
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Customizable health check scripts |
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SSL termination/offload for reducing SSL certificate costs and simplify management |
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Integrated compression |
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HTTP/HTTPS cookie-based session persistence |
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Dedicated hardware |
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Customizable iRules/Match Rules |
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Intelligent Layer 7, application-based load balancing |
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Pay per server |
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Scales to support hundreds of applications and servers* |
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* Refers to billing model. Number of servers supported dependant on platform. |
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- 24x7x365 monitoring and management from the Hosting.com Network Operations Center
- Protocol- and application-layer verification features including cookie hashing
- Caching equal to the amount of RAM (upgradeable to 4GB)
- Redundant components where ever physically possible
- Enables better performance for an increase in the traffic to your website
- Improved response time and uptime of your applications
- Additional level of redundancy
- Eliminate downtime during software/hardware updates
