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Load Balanced Hosting Solutions

Ensure your applications stay online with fully managed load balanced hosting. Our service supports horizontal scaling, multi-site redundancy, and advanced features like caching, HTTPS offloading, and session persistence - all monitored 24/7 by our expert engineers.

Scalable, Resilient Hosting for High Availability

Our load balanced hosting service delivers the performance and uptime your business depends on. By decoupling applications from a single server, we provide fault tolerance, seamless horizontal scaling, and high availability across multiple sites. Fully managed and hosted in our secure UK datacentre, our load balancers include caching, HTTPS offloading, and session persistence to keep your services fast, secure, and always accessible.

High Availability & Uptime

By distributing traffic across multiple servers, load balancing ensures that if one server becomes unavailable, requests are automatically rerouted to healthy nodes. This provides resilience against downtime and guarantees a more reliable online presence.

Efficient Resource Utilisation

Instead of overloading a single server, traffic is evenly spread. This not only maximises hardware efficiency but also reduces the risk of degraded performance when usage is high.

Load Balance Any Application

Our expert engineers can design and implement tailored solutions to load balance even the most complex applications, ensuring performance, reliability, and seamless operation no matter how demanding the workload.

Virtualised Efficiency

With smart use of virtualisation, we can deploy a highly resilient load balanced environment on as few as two physical servers. This setup can be virtualised into multiple roles such as load balancers, web servers and database servers, delivering the flexibility of virtualisation while retaining the performance and security of dedicated hardware.

Seamless Scalability

Because our platforms are built on load balancing, infrastructure can be scaled up or down without downtime. Even if half the environment is taken offline for upgrades or expansion, your application remains online and uninterrupted.

Security and Mitigation

Load balancers can absorb and filter certain types of malicious traffic (such as basic DDoS floods), preventing them from overwhelming a single server. They also hide the details of your back end servers, adding an extra layer of security.

Load Balanced Hosting Packages

Choose the Load Balanced Hosting package that meets your business requirements. Whether you're a small business needing reliable protection, or a large enterprise requiring high availability for mission-critical workloads, our packages can scale to meet your infrastructure needs. With various options for replication frequency, server configurations, and failover capabilities, our services ensure optimal performance and 100% uptime for your applications.

Bronze Resilience

Our entry level load balanced hosting package is designed to provide dependable performance and high availability for smaller workloads. It’s a cost effective solution that ensures uptime, resilience and peace of mind, giving businesses the confidence to run critical applications without interruption.

  • 2 x AMD Epyc Bare Metal Servers
  • 2 x Load Balancers, 2 x Web, 1 x Database Server
  • 128GB RAM
  • 2TB NVMe SSD Storage
  • Nightly Backups
  • Full Management and Monitoring

From £395/Month

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Bronze

Silver Resilience

A step up in resilience and resources, this package is designed for growing businesses that need more capacity and stronger failover protection. With two database servers, it offers enhanced scalability and consistent reliability for expanding workloads and more demanding applications.

  • 2 x AMD Epyc Bare Metal Servers
  • 2 x Load Balancers, 2 x Web, 2 x Database Server
  • 256GB RAM
  • 4TB NVMe SSD Storage
  • 4 Hourly Database Backups & Nightly Full Backups
  • Full Management and Monitoring

From £625/Month

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Silver

Gold Resilience

Our enterprise grade package offering maximum performance, and availability. This tier includes SQL replication with a third witness server for guaranteed database consistency and fault tolerance, ensuring your mission-critical applications stay online at all times.

  • 3 x AMD Epyc Bare Metal Servers
  • 2 x Load Balancers, 3 x Web, 3 x Database Server
  • 1TB RAM
  • 8TB NVMe SSD Storage
  • Every 15 Minute Database & Nightly Full Backups
  • Full Management and Monitoring

From £1295/Month

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Gold

Always-On Hosting with Load Balanced Solutions

We utilise multiple load balancers across different physical hosts and datacentres to provide a seamless web experience with a single public-facing IP for your website or application. Our load balancers are configured in an active-standby setup with a floating IP that automatically moves between them based on availability.

Our load balancing solutions are versatile and capable of handling any type of service. For web services, they offer additional features like SSL offloading and caching to enhance performance. Connections between load balancers and back end servers are typically configured as persistent, ensuring users are directed to the same server for a consistent experience, provided the server is available.

For web server synchronisation, we use DFS replication for Windows/IIS load balancing, or tools like Unison, Rsync, or shared network drives for Linux based servers. Additionally, we offer load-balanced and replicated database solutions, ensuring high availability and reliability for your critical data.

Layer 4 and Layer 7 Load Balancing

We provide load balancing solutions at both Layer 4 and Layer 7. Layer 4 load balancing directs traffic based on IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports. This method ensures fast and efficient traffic distribution, making it ideal for high-availability hosting where speed and reliability are crucial. It works seamlessly with any application and guarantees low latency and minimal overhead for services such as HTTP, FTP, or DNS, offering a straightforward and effective solution for large-scale traffic management.

Layer 7 load balancing, however, operates at the application layer, providing more granular control over web traffic. By inspecting HTTP headers, cookies, and URL’s, Layer 7 enables advanced features like SSL offloading, caching, and content-aware routing. This makes it the ideal choice for more complex hosting scenarios, such as web applications or API’s, where enhanced performance, security, and custom traffic management are required. With Layer 7, we can optimise traffic distribution based on real-time application data, ensuring a more efficient and tailored user experience.

FAQ’s

Some of the frequently asked questions

Load balancing distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server is overwhelmed. It increases the reliability, scalability, and performance of your hosting environment by improving availability and reducing downtime. If one server fails, the traffic is automatically redirected to the next available server.

Our smallest load-balanced setups consist of two physical servers, each running three virtual machines: one for the load balancer, one for the web server, and one for the database server. In the event of a server failure, all services are seamlessly transferred to the second server, ensuring no downtime or interrupted service.

Load balancing distributes traffic across multiple servers to optimise performance, ensuring zero downtime as visitors are constantly distributed over multiple servers. Replication, on the other hand, creates copies of data across servers, but may result in a few seconds of downtime during failover. While load balancing manages traffic, replication ensures data redundancy and availability.

By distributing traffic across multiple servers, load balancing prevents any single server from becoming a bottleneck, ensuring faster load times and more consistent performance. Features like caching and SSL offloading in Layer 7 load balancing further improve speed and resource efficiency for web applications.

Yes, load balancing can be applied to almost any type of application, whether it’s a simple website or a complex web service. Layer 4 is suitable for basic services, while Layer 7 allows for more sophisticated features like content-aware routing, SSL offloading, and enhanced performance for web applications and API’s.

We are here to help 24/7/365

Our UK based technical engineers are available around the clock whether by phone or through our helpdesk. We guarantee fast, expert support whenever you need it.

  • Guaranteed 10 minute response time to critical support tickets via our expert helpdesk.
  • Freephone 24/7/365 telephone support, always answered by in-house UK based engineers.
  • Onsite engineers in all of our datacentres, 24/7/365, for instant issue resolution.
  • Proactive monitoring available, helping us detect issues before they affect your service.
Freephone:
0800 610 1 620
National:
0345 095 1 620