Hosted Load Balancing Solutions

Ensure your site is always available and incredibly fast.

Our load balanced solution provides cloud-like scalability, securely. When used as a high-availability hosting technique, load balanced servers help keep critical systems and websites available to users at all times by eliminating “bottlenecks” during peak traffic times, so every user or visitor has a positive experience.

Load balanced deployments vary depending upon the type of information that will be handled and distributed. For example, web servers are load balanced using different techniques than a database server. In addition, our load balancers offer content based routing, session persistence and health monitoring to help reduce and even eliminate common website user complaints:

• Sluggish performance
• Website inaccessibility
• Logged off while trying to save changes

Our load balancers use adaptive algorithms to optimise and delegate resources between Cloud Servers. We will constantly measure concurrent users/connections and processor utilisation to make the best use of your resources. For example, when “Cloud Server A” gets overloaded or becomes unavailable for any reason, the load balancer automatically directs users to “Cloud Server B”. This process helps ensure redundancy and failover, which can make load balancing an important asset in business continuity plans.

Load balancing is recommended (and sometimes necessary) for small or medium-sized businesses that:

• Provide Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Provide mission-critical systems such as medical applications, document management systems, intranets and portals, and social communities
• Experience significant, unpredictable traffic spikes due to marketing, seasonality, or regular daily activity

Load balancing has historically been reserved for enterprises with large IT environments and even larger IT budgets, but FireHost makes this premium hosting service available without the premium price.