L4/L7 · SSL Offloading · GSLB

LOAD BALANCER & PERFORMANCE

Manage your traffic intelligently and deliver uninterrupted access with maximum speed.

LOAD BALANCING & TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

As your website or application grows, a single server may no longer handle the traffic. OwnHost Load Balancer intelligently distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers, prevents system failures, speeds up response times and provides 99.99% availability by automatically routing traffic to healthy servers during outages.
  • High Performance
  • High Availability (HA)
  • SSL Offloading
  • Global Traffic Manager

Load Balancer Solutions

Traffic management models suited to your project scale and technical needs.

L4 LOAD BALANCER

PERFORMANCE FOCUSED

An economical solution that works at IP and port level (TCP/UDP), delivering the fastest routing without inspecting packet content.

  • Ultra Low Latency
  • TCP/UDP Support
  • Packet Content Opaque
  • High Throughput

L7 LOAD BALANCER

APPLICATION FOCUSED

Performs intelligent routing based on HTTP/HTTPS headers. Distributes traffic by URL, cookie or device type.

  • Smart HTTP Routing
  • SSL Termination
  • WAF Integration
  • Cookie Persistence

GLOBAL TRAFFIC

MULTI-LOCATION

Distributes traffic across different data centers and routes users to the nearest or fastest server.

  • Geo-DNS Routing
  • Nearest Location
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Hybrid Architecture Support

ENTERPRISE LB

FULLY MANAGED

A dedicated hardware or virtual solution based on F5, Citrix or HAProxy, fully managed by OwnHost engineers.

  • Full Management Support
  • Advanced Reporting
  • DDoS Protection
  • 24/7 Priority Support

Technical Features

Standard capabilities offered by our load balancing service.

Algorithm Options

Supports different distribution algorithms such as Round Robin, Least Connections or IP Hash.

Health Checks

Continuously monitors backend servers and automatically removes unresponsive servers from the pool.

SSL Offloading

Takes SSL decryption load off your servers so your web servers can run more efficiently.

DDoS Mitigation

Protects your servers by filtering attacks such as SYN Flood and HTTP Flood at the load balancer layer.

Session Persistence

Keeps users on the same server during their session (sticky session) to prevent cart/session errors.

Gzip Compression

Compresses content before sending it to users, saving bandwidth and speeding up your site.

Frequently Asked Questions

On high-traffic sites, a single server may become insufficient or fail. A load balancer distributes traffic across multiple servers, prevents your site from going down, improves performance and keeps your site online even if one server fails (High Availability).

Layer 4 (L4) load balancing works at the transport layer of the network. It routes traffic based on IP address and TCP/UDP port information. It does not inspect packet content (URL, cookie, etc.). Therefore it is very fast and offers low latency. It is ideal for DNS servers, email servers or database clusters.

Layer 7 (L7) load balancing works at the application layer. It can analyze HTTP headers, URL structure, cookies and even payload content when routing traffic. Example: it can send "/images" requests to an image server and "/api" requests to an API server. It is smarter but requires more CPU power than L4.

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) distributes traffic not only to servers within a single data center, but to data centers in different parts of the world. It routes users to the geographically closest server to improve page load speed. If a data center in one city fails, it automatically routes traffic to another city, providing a complete Disaster Recovery solution.

SSL decryption is taxing for servers. With SSL offloading, the load balancer handles this work. Traffic is decrypted at the load balancer and forwarded to backend servers unencrypted (or with lighter encryption). This reduces the load on your web servers and speeds up response times.

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