What are the benefits of load balancers?
We understand how important it is to ensure optimal performance and reliability of web applications. That’s why we believe a key component in achieving this is load balancing. By distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers, load balancers prevent bottlenecks, enhance user experience, and safeguard against downtime.
In this article, we break down load balancer benefits and how our solutions can elevate your IT infrastructure.
Maximize application performance
By intelligently distributing traffic across multiple servers, load balancers prevent bottlenecks and ensure smooth user experiences. This is particularly important for high-traffic websites and applications where even momentary delays can lead to lost customers and revenue (for example, The Olympics).
Guarantee high availability
By constantly monitoring the health of servers and rerouting traffic away from failing instances, load balancers can prevent downtime and maintain uninterrupted service. This is crucial for critical applications where outages can have severe consequences (for example, the CrowdStrike outage).
Scale with ease
As your business grows, so does your traffic. Load balancers provide the flexibility to scale your infrastructure seamlessly. By adding new servers to the load balancer pool, you can easily accommodate increased traffic without compromising performance (for example, EA’s gaming infrastructure). Our load balancers support chaining up to 32 balancers, allowing for horizontal scaling to handle even the most demanding workloads.
Cost-effective solution
A lot of high-performance load balancing solutions are expensive. By optimizing resource utilization and preventing server overload, our load balancers help you save money while delivering exceptional results.
Seamless integration and effortless management
HorizonIQ’s load balancers are designed to seamlessly integrate with your existing infrastructure, including our Bare Metal and Private Cloud deployments. This simplifies setup and reduces integration complexities. The best part? Our load balancing solution is fully managed, allowing you to focus on your core business operations.
Geographic diversity for optimal performance
To ensure optimal performance and low latency for a global audience, our load balancers support geographic diversity. Because of our varying data center locations, we are able to distribute traffic across multiple sites, thus minimizing the impact of network congestion and ensure a seamless user experience for users worldwide.
Elevate your IT infrastructure
Load balancers are essential components of modern IT infrastructure. By understanding load balancer benefits, you can find the right provider who will help significantly enhance your application performance, reliability, and scalability. HorizonIQ’s load balancing solutions offer a powerful combination of these features to ensure your business continues to run smoothly.
