GoGrid includes fully integrated and redundant f5 load balancers which you can provision using the customer portal or API. The f5 load balancers are included for free with every account and setup takes just a few minutes.
Use Cases
Prevent Application Downtime: f5 load balancing can be used to spread internet traffic across two or more web servers. In the event a server becomes unavailable, the load balancer will redirect all traffic to the remaining online servers.
Rapid Scaling and Application Uptime: When web applications experience a drastic increase in internet traffic, f5 load balancers may be used to scale infrastructure. This is achieved by adding additional servers to an existing pool of load balanced web servers to handle all incoming requests.
Select the IP addresses of the servers you would like to load balance and assign an unused IP address to the load balancer itself.
Select how you would like your load balancer to distribute traffic between your servers. Two options are available.
Select how you want your load balancer to handle individual sessions. Three options are available.
Round Robin sends incoming connections to your servers one at a time and in a specific order
Least Connect send incoming connections to the servers with the least amount of load on them.
None will cause selected algorithm to determine routing.
SSL Sticky will route all traffic for an SSL session to the same destination after the initial connection establishes the session.
Note that this persistence only works for SSL traffic and load balancing for other types of traffic will not work when this is set.
Source Address will cause all traffic from a given source address to be routed to the same destination host after the initial connection.
Each GoGrid account includes three Virtual IP (VIP) addresses. A VIP is the IP address the F5 load balancer uses to direct traffic to servers.
