Network Load Balancing (NLB) distributes traffic across multiple hosts to improve scalability and availability of IP-based services on server hosting infrastructure. It detects failures and automatically reroutes traffic to healthy nodes in your server hosting deployment—patterns Database Mart deploys for USA hosting customers running web farms and APIs.
Spread traffic across nodes in your server hosting fleet to improve response times, uptime, and growth headroom—core advantages when you run production apps with Database Mart.
Network Load Balancing improves server performance by distributing client requests across multiple server hosting nodes, allowing easy scaling by adding more instances as traffic grows.
Network Load Balancing ensures high availability by detecting server failures and redistributing traffic to remaining servers within seconds, maintaining uninterrupted service.
Manage multiple NLB clusters and hosts on Windows server hosting from a single system using NLB Manager or PowerShell cmdlets.
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Making IIS website Highly Available using IIS ARR and Microsoft NLB. Applies to: Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016, IIS 7.0 and above.
Example of implementation
Configure ARR1+NLB, ARR2+NLB to be Windows Load Balancing servers, which provides high availability and scalability for the content servers. ARR is built as a module on top of IIS and is designed to make the routing decisions at layer 7 (application). NLB makes the routing decisions at layer 3.
Making Nginx sites highly available on Linux server hosting using LVS/HAProxy and Keepalived. Applies to: CentOS 8.x/7.x, Ubuntu 20.x/18.x LTS
Implementation example
Prepare 7 CentOS 7.x hosts and a virtual IP(VIP) address: 192.168.1.4
The load balancer will use 2 hosts, one primary and one standby
lb1 (default primary): 192.168.1.2
lb2 (default standby): 192.168.1.3
The back-end web servers powered by nginx
web servers: Web-1 Web-2 Web-3
image servers: Img-1 Img-2
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Useful resources about our NLB service and high-availability hosting patterns.
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