Load Balancing
How Our Solution Works
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 of redundant web switches to one Customer.
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Server Load Balancing Feature Matrix |
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Fully managed platform |
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Flexible traffic management algorithims |
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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 |
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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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Pay per server |
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Unlimited servers* |
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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
- Allows 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
