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William "Bud" Sims |
Web Server Load Balancing & Clusters

Internet and intranet applications have become an important and critical part of your organization. High availability and performance for both internal and external IP client access are required for to maintain uptime that is critical to your organization. Any IP information platform down time translates to a huge loss in terms of productivity and organization goodwill and opportunity.
High performance and high reliability are usually synonymous with "high priced". The high cost solutions are difficult to justify and often are out of reach for many businesses. The FastServers.Net line of load balancing services provides a number of scaleable options that provides not only high performance and availability but also high value that fits a wide range of budgets. This flexibility and scalability of our load balancing services allows you to build a web farm overnight without a huge upfront cost associated with getting setup.
High Performance
One of the main reasons to use a load-balancing device is to increase capacity of IP servers such as web servers, FTP servers, and E-Mail servers. FastServers.Net load balancing service can share the load among a large number of servers making them appear as one large virtual server.
- By employing a unique routing algorithm, persistent connections are achieved without sacrificing high performance.
- By employing in-path or out-of-path load balancing, FastServers.Net load balancing service can handle huge amount of traffic with easy. With out-of-path configuration, FastServers.Net load balancing service can handle traffic up to 30,000,000 concurrent connections.
Recent independent lab testing shows that FastServers.Net load balancing service can handle over 4000 new connection per second, and sustain concurrent connection for over 300,000 (in NAT or in-path mode, out-of path mode can be 100X more ) at the worst testing situation. What those number mean to the web managers? From survey, 99.99% web site out there has less than the traffic that FastServers.Net load balancing service can handle. For a web site has 1 million page views a day, that only get about 30 new connections per second and peak about 500 concurrent connections at the peak hour during the day. You may read part of the review on-line.
High Availability
Another important reason to use FastServers.Net load balancing service is high availability.
If a server in the web farm fails, FastServers.Net load balancing service will automatically bypass the failed server and use the secondary servers. FastServers.Net load balancing service has built-in high level protocol checker, it actually talks to the services on the server to make sure the service is healthy and running.
High Security
The open nature of the Internet presents security threat to many business. The FastServers.Net load balancing service includes a number of Firewall features to ensure the integrity of your data and protect your server from attackers.
- Network Address Translation
- Denial of Services Protection
- TCP SYN Protection
- SSL Support
Pricing per protocol: Check out pre-bundled Infinite Velocity Solutions
| # of Servers | Monthly Fee | Setup | Concurrent Connections |
| 2 Servers | $30.00 | $150 | 500 |
| 3 Servers | $45.00 | $225 | 750 |
| 4 Servers | $60.00 | $300 | 1000 |
| 5 Servers | $75.00 | $375 | 1250 |
| 6 Servers | $90.00 | $425 | 1500 |
| Concurrent Connections Upgrades |
Monthly Price |
| 500 | $50.00 |
| 750 | $75.00 |
| 1000 | $100.00 |
| 1250 | $125.00 |
| 1500 | $150.00 |





