Avoid Traffic Spikes with Cloud Load Balancers

One of the major concerns in is that a business faces is the traffic spikes and the fear of the website and server crashing due to sudden increase in the traffic. This is applicable in cloud based application servers also. Cloud load balancers allow a company to manage the workload across various servers thereby balancing the load. The client is thus assured of reliability and optimum performance of their business. Though the features are same in both traditional and cloud load balancing, the latter is more cost effective and has smoother scalability applications.

Features of cloud load balancing:
With cloud load balancers, a client experiences many technologies that assure that their website is online at all times and applications are active and responsive ensuring optimum uptime. Each load balancer is allotted a dedicated static IP address which a client may choose to share with other load balancers. The IP address does not change even when the load balancer is active. It prevents downtime by routing traffic to the nearest available server when the server faces issues or experiences high traffic.

The host offering cloud load balancers extend additional benefits that assure of

• Scalability  as situation demands
• customizable network performance
• optimum uptime
• 24/7 support through chat, mail and phone.

Websites have to be running and available to the visitors at all times across all locations to generate traffic and better business performance.  They should be prepared for every sort of issues like slowdown, breakdowns and crashes. One of the better ways to safeguard against such issues is by adopting the cloud CDN server hosting services. It ensures that the data in a website is delivered instantly to the user irrespective of their location. Content distribution network (CDN) ensures website continuity at high speed improving SEO. It is easy to manage and cost effective too.