Balanced Hosting
What is balanced hosting?
Balanced hosting is when a website's traffic is split across two or more servers.
Why use balanced hosting?
By splitting the traffic to a website, your are distributing the workload across more than one server. And limitting your exposure should a problem develop.
The type of balanced system we use eliminates single points of failure, with each server running a full copy of your website and database, with sync of any changes happening in the background in near real-time.
Different types of balanced hosting
Some websites are constantly split across servers, meaning all of the site's traffic is split.
In other cases, balanced hosting is used in case of a fail-over. Whereby websites are switched to the alternative server when a problem occurs or during a maintenance window.
