Comments on: Basics of Application Load Balancers http://www.excitingip.com/516/basics-of-application-load-balancers/ How innovative IT Network infrastructure makes IP excITing! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:08:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: admin http://www.excitingip.com/516/basics-of-application-load-balancers/comment-page-1/#comment-219 admin Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:02:22 +0000 http://www.excitingip.com/516/basics-of-application-load-balancers/#comment-219 Nice comment. Thanks for the additional info. We are planning to cover Application Delivery Controllers later on, and that's why this article was restricted to application load balancing basics. <b>excITingIP.com</b> Nice comment. Thanks for the additional info. We are planning to cover Application Delivery Controllers later on, and that’s why this article was restricted to application load balancing basics.

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]]> By: todd http://www.excitingip.com/516/basics-of-application-load-balancers/comment-page-1/#comment-218 todd Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:30:49 +0000 http://www.excitingip.com/516/basics-of-application-load-balancers/#comment-218 A load balancer is commonly compared to a Swiss Army Knife. It can perform many different functions simultaneously. (A) The load balancer is constantly checking the health of your servers and applications providing high availability to the users and automatically removes apps and/or servers that fail a health check; (B) It accelerates performance depending on the manufacturer and the processing power of the load balancer through offloading CPU intensive processing such as SSL encryption and/or by compressing data transmitted. (C) Is often the last line of defense sitting in front of the servers providing security. (D) Greater user satisfaction with persistence and high availability. Load balancers typically provide this and more depending on cost and functionality. It used to be the lower the cost less performance and functionality was available. In the year 2009 vendors such as Cainet, KEMP, Coyote Point deliver significant value in terms of cost and functionality. However if you have a big IP budget and need every function available to the market it can also be had. F5 and Citrix are examples of powerful, most functional, luxurious load balancers. “Free” load balancers are also available. http://www.kemptechnologies.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=pv&utm_content=zs&utm_campaign=home A load balancer is commonly compared to a Swiss Army Knife. It can perform many different functions simultaneously. (A) The load balancer is constantly checking the health of your servers and applications providing high availability to the users and automatically removes apps and/or servers that fail a health check; (B) It accelerates performance depending on the manufacturer and the processing power of the load balancer through offloading CPU intensive processing such as SSL encryption and/or by compressing data transmitted. (C) Is often the last line of defense sitting in front of the servers providing security. (D) Greater user satisfaction with persistence and high availability. Load balancers typically provide this and more depending on cost and functionality. It used to be the lower the cost less performance and functionality was available. In the year 2009 vendors such as Cainet, KEMP, Coyote Point deliver significant value in terms of cost and functionality. However if you have a big IP budget and need every function available to the market it can also be had. F5 and Citrix are examples of powerful, most functional, luxurious load balancers. “Free” load balancers are also available.

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