High Availability Load Balancer

eApps offers a powerful and easy to use Load Balancer High Availability hosting service to achieve a scalable, high uptime configuration for your mission critical application. The service is reliable and economical. Furthermore it is available now in the eApps Cloud. The service has the following features:

  • Component based - Our HA hosting service uses private Virtual Machines as building blocks. This approach allows for a flexible solution that can be tailored and adjusted easily to meet your HA requirements.
  • Battle tested balancing - HAProxy performs the load balancing function. Millions of users rely on HAProxy every day without realizing that it provides the power behind some of the busiest sites in the world, including Farmville, Twitter, Reddit, and other high activity sites. Furthermore, HAProxy has not had a security incident in over seven years.
  • Security - An encryption wrapper around all data transmitted to and from the end user and front end servers is achieved with stunnel, which allows for the sharing of an SSL certificate across all front end server instances.
  • Redundancy - The HAProxy Load Balancer s extremely reliable. For maximum reliability, a failover Load Balancer can be implemented using HeartBeat. The secondary failover Load Balancer is set up in a separate physical Cloud Zone for added redundancy.
  • Scalability - To meet increased computing demands, the solution can be scaled vertically, by increasing the resources allocated to the Virtual Machines, or horizontally by adding Virtual Machine instances. The eApps Cloud platform makes it fast and easy.

Your High Availability solution can be implemented today! Our Virtual Machine based component approach makes it fast and easy to implement a load balancer configuration. A specialized OS template called Load Balancer Appliance is available now and can be purchased by visiting Create-A-Cloud™ and choosing the Load Balancer Appliance OS template. This template will deploy a single purpose Virtual Machine running HAProxy, stunnel and HeartBeat to perform all load balancer and related functions. A small Load Balancer costs less than $20 per month. The Load Balancer can be configured with minimal assistance from eApps technical staff.  The eApps professional staff can also implement your configuration for a reasonable fee.

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