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five-ninesolutions Develops 2U Linux Based Load Balancer for SMEs which require
100% reliability of their network-based applications.
The load balancer can seamlessly redirect traffic to an available, working server whenever a connection request is made. For example, when visiting www.five-9s.net the load balancer could send traffic to one of three web servers all serving the same web-pages perhaps even in three different geographical locations.
The balancer would look at the traffic coming in and look at the back-end nodes which would serve this request. It would then make a decision based on whatever rules the administrator had configured (for example – quickest server, closest server, server with least connections, round-robin mode etc.) and effectively route that traffic to the correct node, all without the end user noticing any difference.
What’s the advantage? Clients can ensure that their customers are always presented with a working, responsive web page. Unlike tradition DNS based load balancing; the load balancer is able to determine the operational status of the nodes before sending any traffic to it thus ensuring that a connection is sent to the appropriate working server. It can also route data based on dynamic ratios such as ICMP (Ping) response time, number of connections etc.
It’s not just web servers either, most TCP & UDP based applications can be load balanced according to pre-configured or dynamic rules thus allowing other traffic such as FTP, SSH, Terminal Services, Email to be load balanced. Two load-balancers can be used together in a High availability pair where one unit is active and one unit is standby. A failure of either unit will cause the inoperative balancer unit to become operational automatically without user-intervention keeping you up and running, minimising downtime and lowering maintenance costs.
five-ninesolutions utilises the power of UltraMonkey for which it was designed and developed, the number one open-source load balancer/router project. UltraMonkey is a fully featured software package sponsored by VALinux Systems. Our servers run on a distribution of Linux which is fully maintained and supported to run on our hardware and provide maximum network efficiency by utilising open source drivers and software. The benefit of running UltraMonkey on Linux is that the end user benefits from significantly lower TCO than with other load balancers which run proprietary software such as Alteon, Cisco Local Director and F5 BIG-IP and are aimed solely at enterprise business where money is no object.
Another primary benefit with running open source software, security updates and bug fixes are much more likely to get fixed quicker than with the aforementioned companies’ software. Security vulnerabilities are much more likely to be diagnosed and prevented due to the nature of open source software.
Make your network more reliable at an affordable price; five-nines gives your business 99.999% reliability.
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