Agile Load Balancing

Dedicated Load Balancers and Shared Load Balancers that reduce server overloads and expenses.

Powerful Options - Smooth Scaling with Demand - Improved Website Performance

With online business growth comes increased server loads, which directly impact your online performance, availability and cost. And when servers become overloaded, your business revenue suffers because your user experience suffers. The common response to diminishing performance is a brute force solution simply adding more servers that are dedicated to specic applications. But this quickly becomes a poor investment as some servers become overworked while others sit idle. With Agile Load Balancing, PEER 1 Hosting extends a portfolio of Shared Load Balancers and Dedicated Load Balancers that delivers efcient and cost-effective ways to prevent server overload. By ensuring your trafc gets distributed to your least-used servers and maximizing your existing resources, load balancing leverages your existing hardware investment while adding capacity, scalability and peek performance. For the long-term, your total cost of ownership (TCO) decreases while your site performance and user satisfaction continue to increase. Our Shared Load Balancers bring desired functionality at a reasonable price point to help you grow and compete against larger players. Our Dedicated Load Balancers serve up the power, exibility and reliability your growing business demands, including load balancing for SSL applications, and total exibility and control over your single-tenant environment.

Compare the performance metrics of our Dedicated Load Balancing solutions

Performance Metric
Product Name Model Number Number of application cores Total application core memory Layer 4 aggregate throughput Layer 7 aggregate throughput Layer 4 connections/sec (HTTP 1.0) Layer 4 transactions/sec (HTTP 1.1) Layer 7 connections/sec (HTTP 1.0) Layer 7 transactions/sec (HTTP 1.1) DNS queries/sec (fast stateless mode) Maximum concurrent connections Maximum concurrent session entries Max Gigabit Ethernet ports Max 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (XFP) Maximum number of SSL trans/sec Maximum SSL bulk throughput Maximum number of VIPs Maximum number of real servers Maximum number of real server ports DoS attack protection (SYN/sec)

Dedicated Load Balancers

D-5 ADX 1008-1 1 2GB 2GB 2GB 92,000 750,000 22,500 37,500 575,000 4M 8M 8 0 7,168 0.45GB 32 256 2048 3M D-6 ADX 1016-2 2 4GB 4.5GB 4.5GB 187,000 1.25M 45,000 75,000 1.15M 8M 16M 16 0 14,336 0.9GB 1024 4096 8192 7M D-7 ADX 1016-4 4 8GB 9GB 9GB 375,000 2.5M 90,000 150,000 2.25M 16M 32M 16 0 28,672 1.8GB 1024 4096 8192 15M D-8 ADX 1216-4 4 8GB 9GB 9GB 375,000 2.5M 90,000 150,000 2.25M 16M 32M 16 2 28,672 1.8GB 1024 4096 8192 15M

FEATURES
Choice of Shared or Dedicated Load Balancers. Depending on your business needs and budget, you can choose
between our Shared or Dedicated Load Balancers.

Range of Powerful Options. With options that deliver up to 32 million concurrent sessions, 2.5M layer 4 transactions,
1,024 virtual IPs, and optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, you are sure to nd the exact Agile Load Balancing solution that meets your demands.

Sophisticated Trafc Routing. Our Agile Load Balancing options route trafc to underutilized servers without restrictive
cooperation or content sharing, and run in active/active mode to ensure redundancy.

Continuous and Customizable Health-Checks. Agile Load Balancing continually monitors the health of your

infrastructure, ensuring that non-responsive servers are automatically removed from rotation so the impact to site visitors is minimal. Frequency and other parameters are completely customizable.

Sticky Sessions. Some functions, like eCommerce shopping carts, require sessions to remain on the same server. On
request, well congure sticky sessions on your Agile Load Balancing to preserve the session state by sending successive requests from the same client to the same server.

Experienced Team of Experts. Our dedicated team of networking experts has experience designing, deploying,
maintaining and securing Agile Load Balancing for a vast and diverse mix of customers with sophisticated and growing web sites.

BENEFITS
Keep Up with Growing Demand Today and Tomorrow. With a broad range of options within Agile Load Balancing,
advanced trafc routing capabilities and a team of experience networking professionals to rely on, you know and trust that your infrastructure will keep pace with your growing business.

Improve Reliability, Security and Performance. With features like sophisticated trafc routing, continuous healthchecks and optional SSL encryption, Agile Load Balancing improves the reliability, security and performance of your web sites, which keeps customers coming back.

Seamless Scalability. Without investing in unnecessary hardware, you can smoothly scale up or down as your workloads
and needs change.

Increased Security. Our Dedicated Load Balancers offer greater security and even accommodate SSLs for eCommerce
applications. You also have the security of knowing your data is totally isolated and secure, as opposed to shared environments.

Extensive Flexibility. Since your Dedicated Load Balancer is dedicated exclusively to you, you benet from greater
exibility in conguring your solution. You can change variables like the frequency of your health-checks.

Proven Reliability. With our fully redundant FastFiber Network, 20 state-of-the-art datacenters across the US, UK and

Canada and our portfolio of additional managed services, your Agile Load Balancing will leverage the same infrastructure that many Fortune 1000 companies rely on every day.

Expert Support. Our team of infrastructure and networking experts is available 24x7x365 to ensure that your Agile
Load Balancing runs smoothly and securely. They are ready to help with everything from designing the ideal solution to troubleshooting to handling the unending and important day-to-day tasks that are crucial to keeping your solution running optimally.

Options
Global Load Balancing. Powered by industry leader Neustar, Global Load Balancing ensures smooth trafc ow with
fully DNS-based global load balancing. This gives companies with a global footprint a powerful, cost-effective solution for balancing their trafc load across all available infrastructures.

Managed Firewalls. Our teams of experts will deploy dedicated, enterprise-grade rewalls, fully manage their
conguration and maintenance, and monitor their performance to deliver increased security for your solution.

Relentless Intrusion Detection. Relentless Intrusion Detection leverages patented, cloud-powered technology to
automatically identify malicious behavior patterns missed by traditional network security products, with possible threats subjected to round-the-clock expert analysis.

Log Management and Review. Log Management and Review automates the log collection, aggregation and

normalization process, simplies log searches, forensic analysis and report creation, and monitors le integrity. It also delivers real-time analysis of log data to potential security incidents, such as account lockouts, failed logins, new user accounts and improper access attempts.

RapidEdge CDN. PEER 1 Hostings Content Delivery Network further optimizes the performance of your solution by
placing valuable static content like catalog images closer to your customers.

AnyCast DNS. Comprised of 27 geographically dispersed clusters of high performance Xeon based servers powering
your DNS lookups, AnyCast DNS shaves crucial milliseconds off the time it takes your customers browser to lookup your web sites IP address. Less time performing DNS lookups means faster page load times and better SEO, which ultimately translates into more revenue for your business.

Deant DDoS Shield. Deant DDoS Shield defends against DDoS attacks more efciently and cost effectively than
traditional techniques. It scrubs dirty trafc clean, returning valid packets to your infrastructure for processing, without the need for expensive equipment or extreme remediation tactics.

Advanced Monitoring. Leverage our comprehensive, simple-to-use Advanced Monitoring powered by Nimsoft to deliver the transparency your business needs to quickly identify problems and speed you down the path to remedying them.

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