Load balancing for high performance websites and applications

The performance of your servers has the potential to directly influence both your online brand experience and your revenue generation.  Users will click elsewhere if your website does not load quickly and Google’s algorithms now reward websites with pages that load more quickly.

Load balancing is a straightforward concept but one that can make a big difference to your website performance and its availability. 

In most cases, a physical load balancer sits in front of your servers, or server cluster, and distributes traffic to the load balanced servers according to a set of configuration rules.  The load balancer will continuously check the health, or availability, of the servers, website or application within the hosting platform.

By load balancing your servers, you can guarantee a faster user experience whilst also providing higher availability, as your website is protected from a single point of failure at the server level.

NetBenefit has recently been integrated with PEER 1 Hosting, one of the fastest-growing and most innovative global hosting providers. Among the many advantages enjoyed by our customers is the scale of the available infrastructure – 19 Data Centres across two continents, linked by 25,000km of wholly-owned  10Gbps FastFiber™ network. – and the resulting increase in resilience and flexibility. 

More than ever, our customers’ sites are protected from the consequences of a single point of failure at the server level.

For more information about Load Balancing offer by PEER 1 Hosting and Netbenefif, visit http://www.peer1hosting.co.uk/hosting/load-balancing