When you are a Managed Hosting customer

Ensure high performance and high availability of your website. Using our data centre Server Load Balancing, service requests are distributed across a group of dedicated servers. In the face of network overload or managed server failure, Server Load Balancing enables the uninterrupted delivery of your website to your customers.

Using Server Load Balancing, a single URL or server name can be serviced by multiple servers with mirrored content. Our cost-effective, scalable and flexible solution utilises Foundry ServerIron technology.

How does it work?

• The service is shared in a cost-effective manner across a number of clients;
• When a user requests your URL or computer name, Server Load Balancing directs user traffic to the least busy server;
• Server Load Balancing provides automatic server fail-over protection. During normal operation, traffic is distributed to multiple servers. If a server fails, it is automatically taken out of service. The remaining servers handle all traffic, with no service interruption;
• Using Server Load Balancing, you can perform a server upgrade or maintenance without any service disruption to your web site.

Contact us for more information on Macquarie Hosting Server Load Balancing services