Server Load Balancing from a Baltimore-based DataCenter
A reliable infrastructure has become increasingly important for companies in all industries throughout the country–whether you’re in Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, or beyond.
Server load balancing is a necessary foundation for ensuring your company has the reliability customers, clients, and employees expect. It helps to make sure you have high performance, high availability, and scalable support for all your applications.
Keep reading to learn more about server load balancing from DataPoint and how it can help your company. If you have any questions or want to speak to somebody, you can contact us or call (410) 209-6700.
What is load balancing?
Server load balancing is the process of distributing service requests across a group of servers. If there is a single web server responding to all the incoming HTTP requests for your website, the capacity of your web server may not be equipped to handle high volumes of incoming traffic for a certain event or as the site popularity grows.
Why do I need a load balancing service?
Overloaded networks can result in pages that are slow to load and time out errors from longer loading times, which could potentially lead to the loss of customers and clients who are aggravated by not being able to access your site.
In addition, many content-intensive applications have grown past the point where one server can provide adequate processing ability. Application server load balancing can deploy several servers transparently to handle this load while appearing to the client as a single server.
Achieving web server scalability requires that more servers can be added at a moment’s notice to distribute the load among the group of servers, or server cluster.
What are the advantages of a server load balancing service?
● Increased scalability: If web traffic encounters a sudden increase causing the server load to get too high, standby servers can be automatically brought online to handle the influx of requests.
● Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS): A load balancing web server can implement features such as cookies and delayed-binding to protect the server from attacks.
● HTTP Compression: The amount of data stored and transferred through the server can be reduced by utilizing compression techniques to improve response times.
● Priority Queuing: Allows you to set different priority levels for different types of traffic.
● Content Filtering: Load balancers can arbitrarily modify traffic during transport and prevent unwanted data from being submitted to your server.
● HTTP Security: Load balancing web servers can prevent users from viewing HTTP error pages, eliminate server identification data from HTTP responses, and encrypt cookies that cannot be manipulated by end users.
● Increased Performance – The performance of your site will increase dramatically over a single web server configuration. Processes like encryption and authentication are removed from other web traffic to optimize speed and viewing of the site.
● Availability and Disaster Recovery – In the event of a natural, man-made or equipment catastrophe, all your web traffic can be handled with a minimal amount of downtime as other servers can be quickly brought online to handle the load. No more sweating for hours or days wondering how many clients are lost during downtimes with our efficient diaster recovery systems.
Why should I choose DataPoint for my server load balancer?
DataPoint has been offering complete, customizable and unique data solutions designed to a business’s needs for over 20 years. Our cloud based services are scalable, secure and at your service 24 hours a day, seven days a week–whether you’re located in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or anywhere else in the Mid-Atlantic region.
With us, there is no need for a large capital expenditure to be made upgrading or adding equipment as we can increase your server space or number of servers as your site becomes more popular. DataPoint also provides a secure interface with authentication tools to ensure that proprietary information is only viewed by authenticated users.
Your IT team will also be able to enjoy true peace-of-mind thanks to our Operation Support Center (OSC). In the event of a disaster, whether caused by Mother Nature, accidental human manipulation or equipment failure, a phone call or few clicks can bring on another server to handle the load with little, if any, interruption.
Request a quote or contact us today and let one of our data engineers show you all the options that are available to you.
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