Easily Load Balance Your Cloud Servers.
Provision load balancing services in just a few minutes.
Simple but powerful rules based routing options.
Optimize bandwidth use with distributed disk caching.
Uses:
1)Prevent app downtime.
Load balancing can be used to spread internet traffic accross two or more web servers. In the event one of your server nodes becomes unavailable, the load balancer will autoredirect all traffic to the remaining servers online.
2) Rapid scaling
When web applications experience a drastic increasein reaffic, load balancers can be used to easily scale your infrastrucxture. Easily add additional servers to your existing pool of web servers to handle incoming traffic.
Options:
Round Robin
Least connection
URL test monitoring to determine the health of individual servers.
Client/Host name affinity.