EarthLink will be hosting our Annual IT Networking Event at the EarthLink IT Campus on Thursday, August 19th, from 4-7PM. Every year we invite customers, partners and IT professionals to network and meet with EarthLink staff. Beer, wine, and happy hour appetizers will be provided. Registration for the event is Free and you can register online using the link below.

Load balancing is essential for the stability of a high volume application or website. Websites like Facebook, Twitter, CNN, etc. all utilize a series of multiple servers to spread out the load of traffic preventing a single server from becoming overloaded.

The different modes available for Load Balancing are: Round Robin, Fastest Response Time, Least Connections, Weighted Round Robin, or a Custom/adaptive Type. A simple explanation would be to say if you run an e-commerce web site; You are like a grocery store, and you want to get a user through the checkout lane the fastest. Right now you only have one checkout lane, and customers are lining up. If you “Load Balance” and open a second checkout lane the user load or wait time is cut in half. If the register runs out of receipt tape (i.e. Server crash), users can switch to the other checkout lane.

The end goal, you want to ensure the fastest and most reliable service to your customers, so they do not shop elsewhere. I am sure we have all seen a customer leave a store because the line was too long, or the site was not available.

EarthLink has been providing cloud computing services for our customers in the Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo regions as well as across the U.S. for 15 years. With the huge explosion of interest in cloud computing over the past year or two, we’ve had many current and prospective customers come to us for ways to migrate to a cloud platform. They have also heard that a cloud platform can reduce IT costs. They are right.

A great way to leverage the cloud and reduce costs is to run your application with…

For the month of August receive double your bandwidth when signing up for colocation services or the purchase of a dedicated server or VPS. Call and ask to speak to one of our sales engineers today for more details 800.957.4872.