Agile Load Balancing

Ensure best user experience by load balancing your servers.

PEER 1 Hosting provides an easy way to prevent server overload. Agile Load Balancing powered by Brocade^® ensures that traffic gets distributed to the least-used server, maximizing your existing resources, decreasing total cost of ownership (TCO), and ensuring a smooth and frustration-free experience for your users. It's the most efficient and cost-effective method to leverage your existing investment, adding capacity, scalability and peak performance without adding cost or resources.

How it Works

A virtual IP is assigned to the application to be load balanced. Different groups of servers (server farms) appear as a single virtual server that shares a single virtual IP address. Requests come in on this virtual IP, which you can assign to any domain name, just like a real IP.

Managed Brocade ServerIron and ADX Load Balancers

PEER 1 Hosting uses Brocade ServerIrons or ADX Load Balancers to distribute traffic to the server with the least sessions. PEER 1 Hosting fully manages the load balancers to ensure that the configurations are set to your specifications.

On-Demand Scalability

Servers can be easily inserted or removed from the server farm, allowing you to react quickly and resize your web presence to match demand without costly server upgrades.

High Availability, High Redundancy

Since servers are automatically removed from the farm when health checks fail, Agile Load Balancing ensures peak availability for HTTP, SSL, and FTP applications.

Sticky Sessions

On request, we'll set up sticky sessions, which preserve session state by sending successive requests from the same client to the same server.

IP Address Setup

PEER 1 Hosting will handle IP setup for you, as well as the server side configurations to ensure the Agile Load Balancing service is functioning as expected.

Available Operating Systems

Available on current Managed Hosting Operating Systems - Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Choose Shared or Dedicated Load Balancers

If your hosting needs demand it, we offer Agile Load Balancing with load balancers dedicated only to your servers.

Best Investment

Agile Load Balancing leverages your existing investment to manage traffic, adding capacity, scalability and peak performance without adding cost or resources.

Increases Capacity

Using a "least-sessions" algorithm, requests are distributed amongst multiple servers hosting the same application, allowing more users to reach your application.

Delivers Reliable User Experiences

By carefully distributing your user traffic only to healthy servers across your server farm, Agile Load Balancing helps ensure an uninterrupted, unobstructed experience for every user at any time.

FirstCall Support™

FirstCall Support means you have to make only one call to us to be certain of a rapid resolution. We do that through our talented support team, formed of Level II and III System Administrators with an average of five years tenure with us. And that team is available to all Agile Load Balancing customers, every minute of every day.