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Load Balancing

For websites and applications where availability, accessibility, and performance are absolute requirements, Load Balancing offers the ideal solution. A Load Balancing solution is typically used for highly business-critical and intensively used (web) applications and/or databases. With years of experience, Shock Media is the partner for this type of solution.

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Overview

For websites and applications where a very large number of users connect simultaneously, Load Balancing may be necessary in some cases. Load Balancing is a technique in which connections and their associated instructions are distributed across multiple servers or devices. The goal is to ensure an optimal user experience even with very large numbers of visitors and connections, and to utilize available resources as efficiently as possible.

Balance your application usage

For applications with a very high number of users or where the available resources are used intensively, Load Balancing can offer the ideal solution.

Guaranteed 100% availability

By applying Load Balancing to your website or application, you can guarantee 100% availability. Since a server or other resource can be removed from the Load Balancing setup, for example for maintenance, the application remains accessible and available to users at all times.

Health Monitoring

The Load Balancers provided by Shock Media use Health Monitoring to check the accessibility of the servers behind them. If a check fails, the relevant server will be removed from the Load Balancing configuration. When the check is successful again, the server will return.

Fully managed and configured

If a Load Balancing solution is the best choice for your situation, it will be fully managed and configured by the specialists at Shock Media. This way, you don’t have to worry about the solution and you can be sure that it is monitored day and night.

Multi-datacenter

Multi-datacenter As one of the few Managed Hosting providers in the Netherlands, Shock Media offers the ability to provide Load Balancing across multiple data centers. Your environment will be active in multiple data centers and, even in the event of a complete site failure, the accessibility and availability of your websites and applications is ensured.

Webserver Load Balancing

For websites and web applications that need to handle a large number of visitors daily or during certain periods, a Load Balancing setup is often the best solution. By distributing visitors and users across different web servers, the large influx of visitors can be processed. As the number of visitors increases, the number of web servers can also be scaled up. This ensures that websites and web applications remain responsive, giving visitors the best user experience.

Unprecedented scalability and reliability

Load Balancing offers extensive scalability for any website and web application. By adding more web servers, the solution can accommodate more visitors. Using multiple web servers also means that the accessibility of a website or web application is not affected when maintenance needs to be performed on a web server.

SSL offloading

For websites that are secured with SSL and must handle a very large number of visitors, SSL offloading can be a good solution to boost website performance. With SSL offloading, the process of SSL encryption is not handled by a web server but by a specifically designated server. This can, for example, be the Load Balancer itself or another server. By applying SSL offloading, fewer resources are used on the web servers, allowing them to handle more requests simultaneously.

Tailored advice

Load Balancing solutions are often custom-made. By discussing your needs with our specialists, we can provide tailored advice for your situation. Please feel free to contact us for a free consultation.

Database Load Balancing

For websites and applications that make intensive use of a database, a Load Balanced solution can be ideal. By spreading the queries executed on a database over multiple servers, the database speed can be guaranteed. Load Balancing is possible for the most common databases, including MySQL, ElasticSearch, and MongoDB.

Ultimate performance

By making optimal use of the available resources, extraordinary performance can be achieved. Thanks to the techniques applied by Shock Media, a tailor-made solution can be provided for every Load Balancing environment.

Multi-Master clustering

Shock Media offers the possibility of setting up Multi-Master clusters. A Multi-Master database cluster can be set up for MySQL, among others. This allows writing to multiple database servers at the same time. By applying this setup, even the most demanding database environments can deliver perfect speed.

Tailored advice

A Load Balancing setup for databases is often custom work. By consulting with our advisors, we can provide a suitable solution for your situation. Please feel free to contact us.

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