If you want to achieve high availability without burning all of your budget, our managed web cluster, featuring load balancing and data replication, is the perfect way to start.
Web clusters can be customized with additional Classic servers, storage solutions , hardware load balancers or mirrored database servers to build a powerful enterprise-class hosting architecture.
Fully Managed Web Cluster
Benefits of the Web Cluster
Customer Stories
BigSoccer is a soccer-related community among the 100 biggest Internet forums according to big-boards.com.
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iWeb worked with us to create a powerful web server and database cluster that kept our site blazingly fast during the 2006 World Cup even as traffic was skyrocketing to record levels.
Ethan Beard
President at BigSoccer.com
Keep your web sites available all the time
The web cluster uses load balancing to send your visitors’ requests to available servers. If a server fails, it is automatically removed from the available servers pool and your visitors are sent to servers capable of serving your web site's functionalities.
Scale and increase capacity when you need it
No need to fear being featured on the biggest web sites, with a web cluster you are ready for a storm of visitors. Upgrade from 2 to tens of servers in hours whenever you need it. Install your web cluster in a private dedicated server rack and scale to hundreds of servers.
Improved performance
By sharing your web applications’ load between multiple servers you will decrease the needed resources on each servers and improve the performance for your end users. Add as many servers as you wish to maintain your preferred performance level.
Enhanced Security
In addition to using your own dedicated private switch, your web servers are installed behind the load balancers that can also act as firewalls allowing only for the accepted traffic to reach your web servers. Firewall rules can be customized to fit your specific needs.
Load Balancing
Simply add load balancing to your current multiple server configuration in order to achieve high availability and build your own web cluster without burning all your hosting budget.
Load balancing can be implemented quickly and easily as an add-on to your current server solution to share the load between your web servers. Using a simple script to replicate the data on the servers.
| Specifications | iWeb LB Solution | |
|---|---|---|
Dedicated and fully redundant |  iWeb's load balancing solutions are based on redundant load balancing hardware: if one of your load balancer fails, the other takes over and continues serving your web sites. |  |
Cookie based load balancing | The load balancing can be based on more specific criteria related to cookies. |  |
SSL Acceleration | | |
Supports any TCP or UDP port | The load balancing can be done on any service using TCP or UDP ports: Web, email, DNS, and so on. | |
Custom URL health checks | In addition to service availability checks, the load balancer can be configured for advanced checks in order to redirect customers to a different server if a page is not showing properly or if it detects any problem in your web applications. | |
Session support | The load balancer can redirect the visitor on the same server for a period of time. | |
Supported number of IPs | Unlimited | |
Supported number of Servers | Unlimited | |
Event logging | | |
Max concurrent connections | 500,000 + | |
Uplink and maximum incoming traffic | 100Mbps | |
Maximum outgoing traffic | Up to 1Gbps using direct routing | |
| Management | iWeb LB Solution | |
Initial setup and rules | | |
Fully managed 24x7x365 with 24/7 monitoring | iWeb will respond to fix, within 15 minutes, any issue that is reported that is related to the load balancer itself. Issues related to the servers behind the load balancers can also be fixed. | |
4 hour hardware replacement | | |
Local network switch and configurations | iWeb will provide a switch and use it to create a local network for all the servers behind the load balancers. | |
Monthly traffic | Monthly traffic allocation is shared between all servers behind the load balancers. | 3,000GB or 10Mbps Unmetered |
| iWeb LB Solution | ||
$249 /month  | ||
Keep your web sites available all the time- Scale and increase capacity when you need it
- Improved performance
- Enhanced Security
Usage and implementation
Load balancing can be implemented quickly and easily as an add-on to your current server solution to share the load between your web servers. Using a simple script to replicate the data on the servers whenever it changes you will not need any file server or additional hardware to create your very own simple web cluster . iWeb's team will assist you and make sure your transition to a load balanced configuration goes smoothly.
If you are looking for an enterprise-class solution, iWeb’s load balancing solution can be coupled with a complete storage area network to eliminate the need for data replication, a replicated mySQL database server configuration to secure your dynamic data and multiple classic servers to provide your appications the cpu power it needs to operate. Take a look at our web cluster configuration ideas using load balancing.