Performance and business continuity is critical in today's 'always on' digital world. To ensure the delivery of performance, load balancing is a must for organisations with a cluster of servers running web applications simultaneously. Load balancing optimises the system's performance through leveraging computing resources, resulting in higher availability and scalability for business critical web applications.

Load balancing divides a workload between two or more servers offering a higher total capacity by distributing the load across a cluster. If a fault occurs with one of the servers within a cluster the load balancer will automatically route requests to the other servers until the fault has been corrected providing seamless redundancy. DNS round robin, the other major technology in this area, is not capable of achieving.

We use failover pairs of hardware load balancers from market leading manufacturers such as F5 to ensure the highest quality of service for all of our implementations. The advantage of utilising cutting edge technology in this area is a wide set of features including but not limited to:

• Reliability - delivers the industry’s most advanced system to ensure that applications are always available.
• Accelerated Applications - provides unmatched control to accelerate application performance by up to 3 times, ensuring that priority applications are served first and offloading expensive server cycles.
• Reduced Server and Bandwidth Cost - triples server capacity through a rich set of infrastructure optimisation capabilities and reduces bandwidth costs by up to 80 percent through intelligent HTTP compression, bandwidth management, and more.
• Greater Network and Application Security - from DoS protection to cloaking to filtering out application attacks, adding critical security features that simply cannot be addressed elsewhere in the network.

If you require a high availability infrastructure, one of our Solution Architects will work closely with you to design, document and explain a load balanced, clustered solution for you.