Load Balancing Hosting Products
 As web services grow beyond the capacity of a single server to handle, it is important to deploy a stable and reliable network-based solution. To meet this challenge, The Planet offers devices from Foundry's ServerIron load balancer line. We're proud to announce the arrival of the next generation of Foundry ServerIron products, the ServerIron 4G and 4G-SSL.
Load Balancers allow a group of servers to intelligently service requests made to a single domain name. This high performance architecture allows for significantly greater performance than can be achieved by a single server. In addition, if any of the services on a single server fail, the requests will automatically be routed to the remaining servers. As a result, downtime related to server failures or administrative maintenance can be significantly reduced or eliminated.
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Load Balancing Benefits
- Maximum server utilization means you get better user performance for your investment.
- Higher overall availability to applications enhances user response times and avoids bottlenecks.
- Transparent load distribution across networked servers makes them appear as one to your users, giving them a seamless experience.
- Greater manageability for servers that need to be removed from service and returned to operations following maintenance saves time and effort without affecting performance.
- Global Load Balancing and other advanced Layer 3 networking functionality
Load Balancing Features
- Dedicated high-availability application switches for business critical needs
- Fully managed by The Planet Professional Services experts at no extra cost
- Installed on your private rack: uplinks to router and downlinks to your private rack switch
- Each SLB monitored by The Planet Network Operations Center 24x7x365
- Cold spares available on site available for emergency replacement at extra cost
- Configurations are backed up at no extra cost
Specifications - *NEW* ServerIron 4G and 4G-SSL
- 1000 Mb Gigabit over Copper ports
- Throughput in excess of 1000 Mbps
- Up to 5,000,000 concurrent sessions
- Up to 40,000 TCP/UDP connections per second
- Telnet, SSH, and web management
- Transparent support to load balance any TCP or UDP application
- Content switching including URL, Cookie, HTTP, and SSL ID
- Load balancing methods: RR (round robin), least connections, weighted RR, response time
- Redundant configurations available: high-availability server load balancing with stateful failover in hot-standby
- Optional Integrated SSL Acceleration
- Optional Global Load Balancing functionality
Specifications - ServerIron XL
- Dual 100 Mb Ethernet ports
- 1000 Mb fiber ports available for Gigabit speed uplinks
- Throughput in excess of 800 Mbps
- Up to 1,000,000 concurrent sessions
- Up to 19,000 TCP/UDP connections per second
- Telnet, SSH, and web management
- Transparent support to load balance any TCP or UDP application
- Content switching including URL, Cookie, HTTP, and SSL ID
- Load balancing methods: RR (round robin), least connections, weighted RR, response time
- Redundant configurations available: high-availability server load balancing with stateful failover in hot-standby
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