Hello all,
I wanted to write a short post about one of our newer services. We recently added a hardware load balancer, specifically a Foundry Networks ServerIron 4G Series Switch, to our network. The idea behind adding this appliance is to make a hardware load balancing service available to our customers.
Load balancing, in regards to dedicated hosting, is often used by high traffic sites to spread traffic across multiple servers that have identical content. In addition to diverting traffic to multiple servers for high traffic sites, it can also be very effective as a fail over solution if it is mission critical that your website be online at all times. Take a look at detailed information about the ServerIron here.