In today's market, most providers offer 'shared hosting' where they host your website on a single server with hundreds of other customers. Some companies may also offer more resilient options with limited round robin load balancing. What we offer is an extremely cost effective and technically comprehensive solution through our advanced hardware based shared Load Balancing service. We are able to intelligently spread the load and risk by hosting your website on multiple servers as your needs demand. You can use our services for load balancing your front end web servers or network services to the other tiers of your application as required.
The Load Balancing service also offers optional feature-rich extended functionality including: application content acceleration, content delivery network caching (which moves content closer to requesting clients such as mobile devices), increased content compression to enhance application performance and bandwidth optimisation, and additional application encryption services.
Key features
- Improves application performance and intelligently balances requests and load on servers, providing the fastest response times.
- Increases solution resilience through high availability and multiple algorithms to distribute load between multiple balancing nodes and requesting server responses.
- Enhances solution reliability by monitoring the responsiveness of servers and clusters to determine optimal responsiveness, redistribution of requests and availability.
- Support for session affinity and stickiness, maintaining in session user parameters and data.
- Optional web acceleration and security features which specifically configure the load balancing to cache, accelerate, and secure content in a specific agreed manner which improves user experience.
- Optional use of Webtrends enterprise grade web analytics to monitor website performance.