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Load Balancing - Why buy Load Balancing Hardware or Software from Loadbalancer.org?

Load balancer.org is a small company dedicated to load balancing solutions optimized for high performance and high availability. The direct sales model allows for great pre and post sales technical support.

Load Balancer - What about some out of context load balancing quotes?

"We saved $140,000 by not going with an F5 solution, and we never looked back"

"The thing that impressed me was that support questions are actually answered by someone who knows what they are talking about."

"We tried Microsoft NLB and compared it to a Loadbalancer.org ENTERPRISE appliance. We were shocked to find the Loadbalancer decimated the other solution on performance & features."

"Our old Foundry kit was maxing out at about 900 Mb/s on persistent connections...the ENTERPRISE pair we now have doesn't even break a sweat."

"I never thought that I would buy 5 load balancers... but it just saves so much hassle.."

"We've finished our testing of LoadBalancing solutions (we tested both Loadbalancer.org and JetNexus using Microsoft WAS) and found that Loadbalancer performed better in virtually all circumstances we could throw at it (we were unable to really tell the difference when throttling bandwidth via WAS) - especially in our "real-life" scenarios (based on usage over our WAN/LAN)."

About Loadbalancer .org

9 years delivering a uniquely exceptional quality of service

At Loadbalancer.org we believe in quality and not quantity. Unlike our competitors we operate a direct sales & support model - the advantages of which are two-fold. Firstly, our customers always receive the correct appliance for their environment - nothing more, nothing less. Secondly, our personalized technical support is second-to-none. This business model enables us to provide, quite simply, the best all round load balancing service at a truly remarkable price point.

Like a number of great companies Loadbalancer.org is the result of an engineer 'scratching an itch'. All of our appliances are designed to deliver high performance, high-availability load balancing on great hardware with fantastic support.

Loadbalancer.org has a great reputation for being honest & flexible with no nonsense and easy to use high performance products. This has enabled strong growth and exceptional traction with networking professionals due to its high quality elegant design and, unusually for a commercial appliance, full root system access.

Cheap, Powerful & Effective
OK... so marketing hate us using the word 'cheap', and to be honest we're not that cheap, $7,995 is a fair bit of cash for a pair of high-availability load balancers. Especially as its based on 'free' (free as in 'freedom' not free as in beer) software.

What you're paying for is the fact that this appliance is tried tested and battle hardened on a lot of big web sites run by talented people who want results not marketing gimmicks.

Partners you can trust
We use high quality, high performance servers from Supermicro, Inc. & Dell, Inc. System integration, assembly, testing, distribution & maintenance is then handled by MBX Systems, Inc..

What's our company vision?
At Loadbalancer.org we have always believed in only releasing products that work, are easy to use and don't have any non-useful bells and whistles.

Why Open Source?
As the great Linus says "I just use what works". About 30% of our customers use completely open source back ends and the other 70% use a mixture of proprietary back ends (Apple, Windows, Solaris, AIX, Oracle etc). Although we're not Linux zealot's, we like how it works and for a network appliance it's the business. Windows 2008 R2 server is a fantastic piece of work and hard to beat in an enterprise environment. A load balanced cluster of Microsoft Terminal Servers is a great way to run a business.

What are the core software elements of the Loadbalancer.org platform?
Loadbalancer.org has been utilizing Linux Virtual Server (LVS) for 7 years and have never found any bugs or performance issues with the code. We have made a couple of modifications that have been fed back into the community for better integration with layer 7 software stacks. We combine the excellent LVS with HA-Linux for high-availability and unlike other vendors we always ship a null modem cable to ensure the high-availability communication path is reliable. For health checking we use a highly customised version of Ultramonkey which has a good developer community.

Our Layer 7 functionality such as SNAT, cookie insertion and URL switching is provided by the extremely fast HAProxy combined with Pound for SSL termination. We are always on the lookout for new technologies and are considering the use of nginx, stunnel , mod_proxy and many other open source projects.

What is different about the Loadbalancer.org hardware platforms?
Loadbalancer.org has used various commodity server platforms and we like the Supermicro servers because of their excellent build quality, flexibility and reliability. Originally we used IDE flash adapter / Compact flash combinations to give more reliability than hard drive based units. However, after being stung with a couple of batches of unreliable flash cards, we have moved to transcend DOM (Disk on module) units with integrated ECC checking.

Some of our customers require 24*7 4 hour on-site hardware support and we provide this by utilizing Dell hardware for worldwide on-site engineer maintenance. This provides you, the customer, with the best of both worlds. Tried and tested Loadbalancer.org software with worldwide 4 hour on-site hardware warranty.