Announcements

Date of announcement -
15 May, 2003 - Load Balancing becomes more Robust at GlobalCenter

With the recent increased uptake of the IP Load Balancing service to our clients, it has become necessary to expand the robust nature of this service with additional redundant equipment.

During a recent maintenance window our skilled Engineers upgraded our Load Balancing equipment to a more scalable and reliable architecture, with minimal effect on clients using this service.

Load Balancing enables clients to balance requests for their applications across multiple servers, whilst simultaneously providing redundancy amongst servers. Typical applications include high volume e-commerce websites, and connection oriented applications that have high CPU and memory requirements.

The GlobalCenter Load Balancing service is a scalable approach to load balancing your application, with multiple low-cost servers being the preferred method, rather than one or two high-powered costly servers.

The GlobalCenter Load Balancing service provides many different configuration options, such as ratio, round robin and priority for load balancing algorithms and session persistence based on HTTP cookie insert, rewrite and SSL session id.

Should you consider this important to your mission critical service, I recommend you contact our sales staff on sales@globalcenter.net.au to discuss this service further.

Tony Wells
General Manager - IDC