What is Load Balancing?

In its simplest form, a load balancer accepts connections and passes them on to a group of servers.

Bamboozle Balancer manages these connections and monitors the servers to ensure your service is always online and available. Balancer makes sure you are aware of any issues by applying intelligent rules to traffic, and collecting detailed reporting information.

Intelligent Balancing

Bamboozle Balancer intelligently scans traffic as it passes, ensuring clients get the optimal experience. We also prevent errors from reaching clients!

Protocol Awareness

Bamboozle Balancer is protocol aware – it understands the content of the requests. Insert headers, do HTTP redirects, create complex ACLs, and more.

100% Full Redundancy

Bamboozle Balancer supports full active/passive redundancy. What does this mean for you? No matter what happens, your website never goes down.

24/7 365 Days Support

Bamboozle is there for you 24/7/365. Our excellent track record and impressive client list are a testament to our quality support. Start today.

Bamboozle Balancer takes all your traffic and splits it between servers, such as web servers. It monitors them and ensures they are online before sending users to your site.

Layer 7 balancer understands your protocols and takes advanced actions with ACLs

A full reporting system provides detailed information about sessions, throughput, users, and queues

Custom alerts monitor when servers are in trouble, go offline, or serve errors

Servers are protected against DoS attacks and protocol specific attacks by only passing valid requests

Sticky sessions keep users logged in – the Balancer is designed for web apps

Balancing Methods

Balancer provides a wide range of load balancing methods designed to suit any client’s needs. All the load balancing methods additionally take weights and maximum connection limits into account when allocating load meaning you can scale your server farm with different sized servers. Balancer is designed to handle any type of TCP traffic, and allow for many different services to be balanced in the most effective and fastest way possible.

Round Robin: Standard round robin load balancing allowing for high performance, while allowing weighting per server and connection limits

Least Connections: Dynamically assign new sessions to the most idle servers, ensuring an even spacing of load

Source Hash: Keep users on the same servers using an IP-based hashing method for load balancing, which allows sticky sessions for all types of TCP connections

RDP Cookies: Specifically designed to load balance RDP data, this ensures your clients stay on their original RDP server while their session is active

Cookie Insertion: Cookies can be transparently inserted into web traffic to flag the server or group of servers a user should visit, keeping sessions active for web traffic

SSL Offloading & Acceleration

SSL communication is an extremely taxing application for web servers, yet the web doesn’t care. More and more sites need to be HTTPS accessible and it’s causing increased costs for applications and websites – the servers use much more resources and it requires more maintenance. Changes to a certificate mean updates on all the web servers, they need to be very carefully monitored for updates and patches and much more.

 

Changing to HTTPS on your web servers can instantly increase your load by 10-20x. Balancer can help you avoid that by handling the SSL communication for you.

 

It allows you to terminate SSL on the load balancer itself. That means that Snapt will communicate in plain HTTP to your web servers, but convert that into SSL for your users while allowing them to communicate back in SSL. It does this all transparently and without your web servers even knowing. A click of a button means you can enable secure browsing of your site, and manage it all from one central location.
Balancing Methods

Balancing Methods

Balancer provides a wide range of load balancing methods designed to suit any client’s needs. All the load balancing methods additionally take weights and maximum connection limits into account when allocating load meaning you can scale your server farm with different sized servers. Balancer is designed to handle any type of TCP traffic, and allow for many different services to be balanced in the most effective and fastest way possible.

Round Robin: Standard round robin load balancing allowing for high performance, while allowing weighting per server and connection limits

Least Connections: Dynamically assign new sessions to the most idle servers, ensuring an even spacing of load

Source Hash: Keep users on the same servers using an IP-based hashing method for load balancing, which allows sticky sessions for all types of TCP connections

RDP Cookies: Specifically designed to load balance RDP data, this ensures your clients stay on their original RDP server while their session is active

Cookie Insertion: Cookies can be transparently inserted into web traffic to flag the server or group of servers a user should visit, keeping sessions active for web traffic

SSL Offloading

SSL Offloading & Acceleration

SSL communication is an extremely taxing application for web servers, yet the web doesn’t care. More and more sites need to be HTTPS accessible and it’s causing increased costs for applications and websites – the servers use much more resources and it requires more maintenance. Changes to a certificate mean updates on all the web servers, they need to be very carefully monitored for updates and patches and much more.

 

Changing to HTTPS on your web servers can instantly increase your load by 10-20x. Balancer can help you avoid that by handling the SSL communication for you.

 

It allows you to terminate SSL on the load balancer itself. That means that Snapt will communicate in plain HTTP to your web servers, but convert that into SSL for your users while allowing them to communicate back in SSL. It does this all transparently and without your web servers even knowing. A click of a button means you can enable secure browsing of your site, and manage it all from one central location.