Keep Your Network Traffic Balanced
A load balancer allows you to add redundancy and scalability to your network more easily — which is critical to any well designed and functioning application. Load Balancing enables a group of servers to intelligently distribute service requests made to a single domain name or address. This ensures significantly greater performance from your servers.
Key Benefits of Planet Alpha's Load Balancers
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Ability to Scale
– Load Balancers from Planet Alpha allow you to manage your IT infrastructure more efficiently as your traffic volumes increase.
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Flexibility
– Load Balancing and failover services are built-in to a single appliance — allowing you to expertly balance your need for both performance and redundancy.
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Expert Management
– Our experts setup, configure, monitor and maintain the Load Balancers including firmware upgrades. In the event there is an problem, you can be assured that our team is working the issue and escalating to priority support if needed, all the while making sure you stay informed.
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An Extra Level of Security
– ServerIron load balancers can control the amount of traffic a particular server receives which prevents abuse and attacks, and increases the availability of applications without blocking legitimate traffic.
Planet Alpha Load Balancer Options
ServerIron XL – 100mbps and ServerIron XL – 800mbps
The ServerIronXL family packs essential application traffic management features in fixed-configuration 10/100 Ethernet application switches and a flexible selection of copper and fiber gigabit uplink modules — all at a great price.
Technical Specifications:
- Dual 100 Mb Ethernet ports
- 1000 Mb fiber ports available for Gigabit speed uplinks
- Throughput in excess of 800 Mbps
- Up to 1,000,000 concurrent sessions
- Up to 19,000 TCP/UDP connections per second
- Telnet, SSH, and Web management
- Transparent support to load balance any TCP or UDP application
- Load balancing methods: RR (round robin), least connections, weighted RR, response time
- Redundant configurations available: high-availability server load balancing with failover in hot-standby
ServerIron 4G – Gigabit and ServerIron 4G-SSL – Gigabit
The ServerIron 4G series offers the industry's most feature-rich and affordable application and content management switches for acceleration, availability and security of critical enterprise applications in small- and mid-sized networks.
Technical Specifications:
- 4 Gigabit over Copper ports
- Up to 2,000,000 concurrent sessions
- Up to 40,000 TCP/UDP connections per second
- Telnet, SSH, and Web management provided by The Planet
- Transparent support to load balance any TCP or UDP application
- Content switching including URL, Cookie, HTTP, and SSL ID
- Load balancing methods: RR (round robin), least connections, weighted RR, response time
- Redundant configurations available: high-availability server load balancing with stateful failover in hot-standby
- Optional Integrated SSL Acceleration
- Optional Global Load Balancing functionality
Shared ServerIron Packages (Virtual Rack only)
Top-of-the-line load balancing technology is now available at a low cost, thanks to Planet Alpha’s Shared Load Balancing for Virtual Racks. Based on Foundry Networks’ ServerIron technology, this service makes the performance benefits and improved scalability of a load-balanced solution accessible to everyone.
- Telnet, SSH, and Web management provided by The Planet
- Transparent support to load balance any TCP or UDP application (Enhanced and Premium packages)
- Content switching including URL, Cookie, HTTP, and SSL ID (Premium package)
- Load balancing methods: RR (round robin), least connections, weighted RR, and response time
- Optional global load balancing functionality (Premium package)
Select a Shared Load Balancing package that meets your requirements:
