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Managed Load Balancing

Everything looks good from the server side. So why is it slowing to a crawl on the user side?

Managed Load Balancing

Today's content-rich web applications often require more processing power than a single server can provide. SSL-based transactions, high server load and interface throughput can cause response times to drag and servers to bog down. What your user sees can make a mockery of your high-dollar web investment.

Take the load off at the hardware level. Our Hi-Touch Load Balancing Services improve server efficiency, boost throughput, and improve response time by handling SSL offloading, caching and compression at the hardware level. All of our solutions use the industry-leading F5 load-balancing platform, and all are backed by 24/7 support and our fully trained, certified staff.

Check out our Load Balancing options:

Hi-Touch Dedicated Load-Balancing Service

Dedicated F5 BigIP load balancers
  • Intelligent load-balancing and optional High-Availability (HA) with sub-second failover for application, database, web and storage related server farms
  • Routable IP addresses configured on the load balancer's Internet-facing interface enable testing of load-balanced VIPs and the load-balanced websites

Our Hi-Touch Shared Load Balancing Service

Shared, high-availability load-balancing services to customers loaded in the Hosted Solutions data center
  • Virtual IP (VIP) addressing
  • Protocol- and application-layer verification features including cookie hashing (non-SSL sites)
  • Standard High Availability Load Balancing Service

Hi-Touch Global Load-Balancing Service

Multi-tenant F5 GTM load balancers
  • Failover and load-balancing across geographically distributed data centers helps ensure business continuity
  • Specific configuration variables based on customer application requirements direct end-users to the best available data center