Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS)
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Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) in Malaysia
Simplify and accelerate your applications, APIs, and content with IP ServerOne’s Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS).
Whether you manage a dynamic website or a complex infrastructure, harness our cloud-based LBaaS for efficient traffic distribution ensures high availability and enhances the performance of applications or services. Its user-friendly interface and flexible pay-as-you-go pricing streamline LBaaS setup, offering both speed and cost-effectiveness while granting you complete control. LBaaS seamlessly integrates with IP ServerOne’s array of services, including NovaCloud, vCloud, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal Servers, making it the ultimate choice for businesses that handle performance-critical applications and demanding workloads.
Benefits of Load Balancer as a Service
Minutes-to-launch
Deploy load balancers seamlessly at any time, anywhere, across your infrastructure to optimize the performance and reliability of your apps and websites.
Flexible Protocols
Choose between Layer 4 (TCP) and Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancing capabilities within the seven-layer OSI model.
NovaCloud Ready
Easily connect load balancers to your NovaCloud server.
Enhanced Reliability and Speed
LBaaS offers high availability with redundant networks and customizable features like load balancer algorithms and session stickiness, ensuring your app remains online at all times."
Smart Load Balancing
Enjoy the speed and uninterrupted operations of our load balancer, which routes traffic to healthy backend servers and provides seamless failover in the event of a server issue.
Low Latency
Choose from Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong regions to deploy your load balancers and experience the swift and seamless load distribution.
Key Features
Stay Available, Stay Competitive
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Quick Deployment
Our easy-to-use interface simplifies the process of deploying and managing your load balancers.
Multiple Protocols
Our load balancer supporting various protocols, including TCP at the network layer and HTTP/HTTPS at the application layer.
Choice of Load Balancing
Select the load balancing that suits your application needs:
- TCP Load Balancing (Layer 4)
- HTTP/HTTPS Load Balancing (Layer 7)
Customizable Rules
Tailored load balancing rules pick from flexible algorithms (Round-Robin, Least Connections, Source) and use session stickiness (Cookie, Table) to swiftly direct sessions to specific servers.
Multi-Port Support
Streamlines traffic distribution across multiple network ports, enabling a single load balancer to efficiently manage various services, resulting in cost optimization.
SSL/TLS Offload
Streamlining SSL/TLS encryption and decryption, alleviating the processing burden on backend servers, and boosting overall application performance.
ReliableUptime
With our load balancers configured in high-availability pairs, we guarantee your websites and applications run without interruption and maintain top-notch performance.
Health Assessment
Conduct both active and passive health checks through HTTP Status, HTTP Body, and TCP Check, as needed, to optimize resource usage and direct traffic only to fully operational and healthy backend.
Load Balancer: Plans and Pricing
Distribute the network traffic, to ensure all intances used equally
Types and Differences of Load Balancers
| Layer 4 (tcp) Load Balancer | Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) Load Balancer |
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| Aspect | TCP Load Balancing | HTTP/HTTPS Load Balancing |
| OSI Layer | Transport Layer (Layer 4) | Application Layer (Layer 7) |
| Routing Criteria | IP Addresses, Port Numbers | URLs, HTTP Headers, Cookies |
| Content Inspection | No | Yes |
| Content-Based Routing | No | Yes |
| SSL/TLS Termination | Limited to TCP Layer | Supported at the Application Layer |
| Session Persistence | Usually Not Supported | Supported |
| Compression | Not Typically Supported | Supported |
| Overhead | Low | Moderate to High |
| Complexity | Simple | Moderate to Complex |
| Load Balancing Algorithms | Typically simple (Round Robin, Least Connections) | More complex (based on content, user session, and more) |
| Use Cases | Network Services, General Traffic General traffic distribution, works well for non-HTTP applications | Web Applications, APIs, Content Delivery Ideal for web applications, content-based routing, session persistence, and SSL offloading |
| Scalability | High Throughput | Application-Specific Routing |
Use Case
Common deployment scenarios for LBaaS:
Website
Application
API
CDN
Database
Scaling
Website
Boost Website Performance
LBaaS ensures your website stays fast and available, even when you have lots of visitors or sudden traffic surges. It’s perfect for businesses with websites that experience changing levels of traffic, like e-commerce sites, news portals, or blogs.
Application
App Stability
LBaaS keeps your apps online and responsive by sending traffic to healthy servers, preventing crashes. It’s great for companies with mobile apps, web apps, or services where staying available and performing well is vital for keeping users satisfied.
API
Optimize API Performance
LBaaS efficiently directs requests to API servers, essential for businesses providing external APIs or relying on internal API-driven services, such as those in software, fintech, or cloud computing sectors.
CDN
Accelerate Content Delivery
LBaaS boosts content delivery by directing users to the closest server, ideal for websites or services offering multimedia content like videos, images, or large files, especially if they have a global audience or use content delivery networks (CDNs).
Database
Database Efficiency
LBaaS evenly spreads database queries across multiple servers, ensuring fast and reliable data retrieval, making it perfect for data-intensive applications like financial systems, e-commerce platforms, or data-driven analytics companies.
Scaling
Modernize Application Scaling
Moving from traditional hardware load balancers to cloud-based LBaaS enables enterprises to enhance application scaling, streamline network port traffic management, and lower ownership costs.
Related Services
Effortlessly integrate Load Balancer as a Service into IP ServerOne's offerings, enhancing your cloud journey within our secure infrastructure, accessible from anywhere in the world.
NovaCloud
Cloud Computing for Everyone.
- Deploy VM in less than 8 min.
- On-demand scalability within just 5 min.
- Free Snapshot backups.
Private Cloud
Dedicated and Customized Cloud Environment.
- Stay secure with full server control.
- Customized setup for every need.
- On-prem or legacy system to the cloud.
Bare Metal Server
Physical Server Dedicated to a Single Tenant.
- Ideal for performance-critical and customizable workloads like gaming and data processing.
- Customizable hardware and resources for efficiency and cost savings.
- Complies with strict industry regulations for heightened data security.
Managed Services
Dedicated Experts at Your Fingertips.
- We offer expert assistance in setting up your application's load balancer for optimal performance.
- Rely on us to manage your infrastructure, ensuring your peace of mind.
- Our support team stands by 24/7/365, ready to assist you at any time.
Get Your Load Balanced Today
We’ll support your application needs every step of the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Load Balancer as a Service short for LBaaS is a cloud service that distributes network traffic across multiple servers to ensure high availability and improved application availability. It prevents server overload by evenly directing incoming requests to healthy backend servers. Load balancers use algorithms to optimize resource use, reduce downtime, and enhance user experiences. It is a crucial tool in cloud computing and data centers, ensuring that applications stay responsive during heavy traffic or server issues, essential for modern web services.
- User-Friendly: Effortlessly deploy and manage your load balancer(s) via the customer portal.
- Assistance: A dedicated 24/7 support team manages LBaaS infrastructure and addresses any issues you encounter.
- Reliability: Your load balancer operates in a highly available environment with network redundancy, ensuring 99.95% uptime.
- Affordability: Benefit from a cloud-based, pay-as-you-go model with low total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Security: Your load balancer is deployed in a highly secure environment, ensuring the safety of your data.
- Speed: Choose to deploy your load balancers in Malaysia, Singapore, or Hong Kong regions for optimal latency.
LBaaS works by intelligently routing incoming traffic to a group of servers, ensuring even distribution, high availability, and optimal performance for web applications and services. It plays a critical role in maintaining the reliability and scalability of modern IT infrastructure.
Imagine a grocery store with multiple checkout counters. LBaaS ensures that when customers arrive, they don’t all rush to one checkout counter; instead, they’re evenly sent to different counters. Here are simplified explanation of how LBaaS works:
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Visitor Arrive
Visitors come to your website and send multiple requests to your server through the internet.
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Load Balancing
LBaaS steps in to evenly distribute these incoming requests across various server resources through specified rules like algorithm and session stickiness.
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Request Routing
Each request or traffic is intercepted by the load balancer, which figures out the right and healthy server to send it to.
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Response Delivery
The response goes back through the load balancer, which directs it to the user who made the initial request.
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Server Processing
The server processes the request and sends back the desired information or response.
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Balanced Workload
Each server gets a reasonable number of requests, so no single server is overwhelmed, and ensuring the server receiving the request isn’t overloaded, so it can process the request promptly.
Step 1: Visitor Arrive
Visitors come to your website and send multiple requests to your server through the internet.
Step 2: Load Balancing
LBaaS steps in to evenly distribute these incoming requests across various server resources through specified rules like algorithm and session stickiness.
Step 3: Request Routing
Each request or traffic is intercepted by the load balancer, which figures out the right and healthy server to send it to.
Step 4: Balanced Workload
Each server gets a reasonable number of requests, so no single server is overwhelmed, and ensuring the server receiving the request isn’t overloaded, so it can process the request promptly.
Step 5: Server Processing
The server processes the request and sends back the desired information or response.
Step 6: Response Delivery
The response goes back through the load balancer, which directs it to the user who made the initial request.
You have the option to deploy either a Layer 4 (TCP) or a Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancer via our customer portal. Here are guides to assist you in beginning the process.
Currently, each account is allowed to create up to 5 load balancers, and there is no limit on the number of backend servers you can associate with each load balancer. If you need to increase the load balancer limit, please reach out to us at cs@ipserverone.com.
IP ServerOne offers both network layer 4 (TCP) and application layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancing. Deploying a load balancer is easy via the customer portal.
Yes, you can utilize LBaaS in a hybrid setup where your application runs in both the cloud (VPC) and on-premises. This is achieved by grouping servers together using IP addresses within the same target group, allowing gradual migration to the cloud while maintaining your application’s stability. Alternatively, you have the option to use separate load balancers for your cloud and on-premises setups, giving you finer control over load distribution through DNS weighting.
Yes, IP ServerOne LBaaS guarantees a yearly availability of at least 99.95% for your load balancers.
Yes, IP ServerOne’s load balancer fully supports SSL/TLS termination, making the SSL offloading process easier. SSL offloading is the practice of handling the complex task of decrypting encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) at the load balancer before forwarding it to the web servers. This not only simplifies the encryption process for the servers but also provides benefits such as improved server performance and reduced CPU usage, ultimately enhancing the overall efficiency of your web applications. You can choose either a self-signed certificate, Let’s Encrypt certificate, or your own certificate by entering the SSL Certificate and Private Key during provisioning of the load balancer.
You have the flexibility to customize several aspects of your load balancer’s configuration, including:
- Port to Listen: Choose the port on which the load balancer listens for incoming traffic.
- Port Protocols: Define the protocols (TCP or HTTP/HTTPS) used for communication.
- SSL/TLS Certificate: Configure SSL/TLS certificates for secure connections.
- Algorithm Rules: Set rules to determine how traffic is distributed among backend servers.
- Session Stickiness: Configure session stickiness for consistent user experiences.
- Health Checks: Define health check parameters such as status or body checks, interval, timeout, attempts, and HTTP(S) path.
- DNS Weight: Adjust DNS weighting to control load distribution.
- Backend server: Manage the backend servers that handle incoming requests.
Choosing the right load balancer layer for your applications depends on your specific requirements and the characteristics of your applications. Here’s a general guideline:
TCP Load Balancing (Layer 4):
- Suitable for applications that don’t require deep inspection of application-layer data.
- Use when you need to distribute traffic based on IP addresses and port numbers.
- Ideal for load balancing non-HTTP protocols or when you have a large number of similar services running on the same port.
HTTP/HTTPS Load Balancing (Layer 7):
- Ideal for web applications, APIs, or services that rely on HTTP/HTTPS, as it can perform content-based routing.
- Choose Layer 7 when you need to distribute traffic based on application-specific data such as URLs, HTTP headers, or cookies.
- Provides advanced features like session persistence, SSL offloading, and more fine-grained control over traffic.
You should consider these key factors When deploying a LBaaS:
- Application Needs: Understand your app’s traffic type, volume, and special requirements.
- Load Balancer Type: Choose between TCP (Layer 4) or HTTP/HTTPS (Layer 7) load balancing.
- Algorithm: Select a load balancing algorithm that suits your traffic distribution.
- High Availability: Ensure reliability with redundant load balancers and failover plans.
- Security: Implement SSL, DDoS protection, and access controls.
- Scalability: Plan for growth by configuring your load balancers and servers.
- SSL/TLS: Configure SSL/TLS certificates if using HTTPS.
- Backup: Establish backup and recovery procedures.
- Redundancy: Build redundancy into your infrastructure.
- Monitoring: Track performance and server health.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with industry regulations.
- Support: Maintain a support contract with your LBaaS provider.
Absolutely, you can seamlessly connect the load balancer to your NovaCloud server. For detailed instructions, refer to our helpful guide here.
