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By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
October 27, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Dedicated managed hosting provider The Planet (www.theplanet.com) announced on Monday it has launched shared load balancing (www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/private-racks) for its virtual rack solution.
The Foundry ServerIron-powered offering is priced from $75 per month, and uses a network device shared by several virtual rack customers. ServerIron technology provides a comprehensive solution for server load balancing, application Layer 7 switching, server farm and application security, SSL acceleration, compression, and multi-site redundancy.
The shared load balancer offers the same scalability and redundancy as a dedicated load balancer at an 85 percent lower cost of entry.
Using load balancing technology helps increase aggregate server throughput and the number of concurrent connections, which in turn enables users to facilitate more traffic at higher speeds to their customer sites.
"Load balancing can be cost-prohibitive, often doubling the price of a server, which can inhibit adoption," says Bryce Edwards, The Planet's general manager for complex infrastructure. "Our customers are price sensitive, so we've carefully evaluated technologies to make our new shared product a cost-effective solution for most any business."
The Planet's shared load balancing is available in three packages for virtual rack customers. The Business package includes 50Mbps of throughput and 10,000 concurrent connections, the Enhanced package offers 175Mbps of throughput and 25,000 concurrent connections, and the Premium package provides 300Mbps of throughput with 50,000 concurrent connections.
In May, The Planet launched its new virtual rack solution, which made the features of its popular private rack solution available to customers running as few as two servers.
The Planet's rack solutions offer unlimited server-to-server transfer, reduced risk of bandwidth overages, and access to advanced security and hosting technologies.
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