Server Load Balancing

Network and server load balancing allows you to add redundancy and scalability to your network more easily, which is critical to any well designed and functioning application. Load Balancing enables a group of servers to intelligently distribute service requests made to a single domain name or address. This ensures significantly greater performance from your servers.

Key Benefits of The Planet's Server Load Balancing Services

Ability to Scale

Server load balancers from The Planet allow you to manage your IT infrastructure more efficiently as traffic volumes increase.

Flexibility

Server load balancing and failover services are built-in to a single appliance, which allows you to expertly balance your need for both performance and redundancy.

Expert Server Management

Our experts set up, configure, monitor and maintain the server load balancers, including firmware upgrades. In the event of a problem, you can be assured our team is working the issue and escalating it to priority support if needed, making sure you stay informed.

An Extra Level of Security

ServerIron load balancers control the amount of traffic a particular server receives, which prevents abuse and attacks, and increases the availability of applications without blocking legitimate traffic.

 

Server Load Balancer Management

Complex network configurations require expert server management available at a moment’s notice around the clock. The Planet‘s highly skilled server load balancer management team is available 24x7 to support your specialized deployment. Basic management comes included with all of our server load balancer offerings.

Basic Management Includes:

• Configure and provision device/service
• 24x7 uptime monitoring with planned reactions
• On-demand upgrades and patch management
• 10 VIPs per server hosted at The Planet unless otherwise listed
• Modify server load balancer policies (VIPs, distribution methods, health checks)

Additional Management Services Available:

• GSLB Configuration, including 3rd party devices – $300 setup
• High Availability / Redundancy Configuration – $300 setup
  • Requires two dedicated devices

The Planet Server Load Balancer Options