Load balancing makes mission critical possible

Load balancing offers the high availability hosting solution that's perfect for mission critical enterprises. In a successful internet business downtime simply cannot be tolerated.

Keep your business online forever

Essentially, load balancing spreads the load on your servers so you don't overwhelm a single piece of hardware. If you carry out maintenance or your server fails, your customers remain online throughout and their service is unaffected.

The benefits of load balancing

• Intelligent problem detection and transference - if a problem is detected with one of your load balanced web servers, it automatically removes it from the cluster until it is working again. A UKFast disaster recovery engineer is immediately notified and the server is quickly remedied.
• Necessary maintenance - if you need to perform maintenance take servers in and out of the cluster without affecting your clients.
• No single point of failure - load balanced servers work smoothly together and if one fails, the other continues automatically. Your servers are housed in different racks powered by a different phase, further minimising risk of downtime.
• Specify how the load is shared - you choose how much work is processed by each server in the load balancing solution. For a server processing 10% you use a lower spec solution - benefiting from decreased costs in initial investment and wasting less energy.
• Add and remove servers - at times when you need extra reliability, simply insert servers and remove them when you're done. Great for high profile ad campaigns or seasonal sales.

Reduce the possibility of hardware failure

Your load balancing servers work in tandem with each other, splitting processes and applications throughout. The chance of hardware failure is reduced because your servers are less likely to be overwhelmed by work. For the top level of data security we even provide load balancing across two locations.

At UKFast we deliver the highest standard Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing.

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