LoadBalancer.org
Load Balancing Appliances & Software
What are the core software elements of the Loadbalancer.org platform?
Loadbalancer.org has been utilizing Linux Virtual Server (LVS) for 6 years and have never found any bugs or performance issues with the code. They have made a couple of modifications that have been fed back into the community for better integration with layer 7 software stacks.
They combine the excellent LVS with HA-Linux for high-availability and unlike other vendors they always ship a null modem cable to ensure the high-availability communication path is reliable. For health checking they use a highly customized version with Ultramonkey which has a good developer community.
Our Layer 7 functionality such as SNAT, cookie insertion and URL switching is provided by the extremely fast HaProxy combined with Pound for SSL termination. They are always on the lookout for new technologies and are considering the use of nginx, stunnel, mod_proxy and many other open source projects.
Product Models
Enterprise
ENTERPRISE is the fastest way to scale your web site. Simply place two of the Ultra-reliable Load balancer .org appliances (in fail-over mode) between your firewall and your web servers. All web requests are handled by the load balancer and dispatched to individual web servers based on the scheduling algorithm you select. If any web server fails a health check it is immediately taken out of the cluster so that your customers are not affected.
- Intuitive web based interface
- One-click server maintenance
- Sensible default settings
- Quick view server load stats
- Auto-sync with slave
Enterprise R16
With Gigabit Nic's and throughput, the Enterprise R16 gives you awesome power at an incredible price. No other load balancer can offer this performance at this low entry price!
The R16 enables those with a tight budget to get the power and throughput they need to start and then upgrade the licence as they grow. Small, light and powerful: 3 million+ concurrent connections. Ideal for large critical environments. Cluster ready, all the configuration on the master is auto-replicated to the slave.
- High performance L4 & L7 load balancing
- Intuitive web based interface
- Hardware SSL acceleration
- IP and cookie persistence
- 64bit processors
- One-click server maintenance
- Sensible default settings
- Quick view server load stats
- Fully 'cluster' ready
- Layer 7 content switching
- Restricted to 16 servers (4*VIPs each with 4*RIPs)
Enterprise MAX
Totally unlimited for brute force applications. 7 million+ concurrent connections.Ideal for large critical environments. 4 * GIG NICs for bonding and high-availability.
- Intuitive web based interface
- One-click server maintenance
- Sensible default settings
- Quick view server load stats
- Auto-sync with slave
- 4 * GIG NICs & 2Gb RAM
Enterprise Virtual Appliance
Full layer 4-7 functionality
The virtual appliance version of our software is almost identical to the hardware appliance, including all the same great features. Load Balancers by their nature have fairly modest hardware requirements, so a virtual platform makes a lot of sense from a technical standpoint.
Features
- Fully 'Cluster Ready' all configuration on the master auto-replicated with the slave.
- High performance Direct Routing, TUN, Single or Dual NIC NAT & Layer 7 SNAT.
- Schedulers : Round Robin, Least Connection, Weighted Least Connection, Weighted Round Robin.
- Dynamic Schedulers : Windows & Linux feedback agents, Custom HTTP feedback option.
- Simple port connect or complex content negotiation health checks.
- Automatic replication of static & dynamic configuration from master to slave load balancer.
- Optional full synchronization of state table between master and slave load balancer.
- Load balance almost ANY protocol i.e. HTTP,HTTPS,SMTP,POP3,IMAP,Terminal Server etc.
- Persistence (sticky) by source IP address or subnet.
- Real time status and daily, monthly, weekly & yearly graphical statistics.
- Full layer 7 proxy support including cookie insertion/inspection
- SSL Termination to enable layer 7 cookie inspection.
Enterprise ECO
Full featured load balancing in a powerful yet environmentally friendly package.
The power of the intel mobile CPU gives a true gigabit load balancer appliance with less than 50W power consumption!
- Intuitive web based interface
- One-click server maintenance
- Sensible default settings
- Quick view server load stats
- Fully 'Cluster Ready'
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