Cheap, Powerful & Effective
OK... so marketing hate us using the word 'cheap', and to be honest we're not that
cheap, £4,995 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. System integration, assembly,
testing, distribution & maintenance is then handled by Armari Ltd.
What's our company vision?
As CEO I've 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 say's "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) .
I'm not a Linux zelot personally, but I like how it works and for a network appliance
it's the business. Windows 2003 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 do our customers say about us?
We have many customers some large, some small but they all want performance, high
availabilty, quailty support and value for money.
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"Our solution at the time was running close to the limit of what I was comfortable
with for its rating, but the logical choice for us to move on to a more powerful
same supplier solution was not an option. Cisco stopped producing a stand alone
solution and built the load balancing technology into a product range that wasn’t
suitable for our needs. The search for a suitable replacement began and as well
looking at offerings from the usual suspects we reached for Google
The two Sledgehammer high availability clustered pairs we bought were hugely cost
effective while at the same time offering the fault tolerance level ASOS needed
to give the confidence to commit to the service levels ASOS aims to provide its
customer base"
Paul Cottingham
ASOS.com |
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"Loadbalancer provides us with the ability to manage our backend customer applications,
supplying us with a fault-tolerant, redundant, high availability solution at an
affordable price."
Geert Bogaert
Managing Partner |
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"We were already using LVS but wanted a solution with quality technical support.
Loadbalancer.org have easily exceeded our requirements."
Johannes Grumböck
Porsche Informatik GmbH
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A rock solid, 100% fault tolerant and cost effective solution that is perfect for
the cost conscious IT professional, who does not want to spend the extra £10k
on functionality he will never use, as with most other vendors. These appliances
do exactly what what it says on the tin. I'm over the moon!
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MyMovies.Net Ltd.
Paul Richards - Director of Operations.
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"We shopped around and compared priced. loadbalancer.org beat the competition
hands down. And not only that, but it was up and running in minutes, with a smart,
easy to use interface. Our units have been running for just over 2 years and have
never failed and have been a lifesaver to our organization"
Brook Davies
IT Director
logiforms.com
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"We distribute large multi-terabyte global datasets based on satellite remote
sensing for environmental (land use, climate change and biodiversity) research using
Google Earth as a visualisation tool, see here. The loadbalancer enables us to use many low-cost desktops
as servers and achieve better outcomes than having investing in fewer but high end
(high cost) servers. The loadbalancer has been easy to set up and works like a dream.
We can very cheaply add new server capacity as the demand grows and the failure
of individual servers is also easy and inexpensive to solve with no disruption to
QoS"
Dr. Mark Mulligan
University of London
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"We've been using our clustered pair to run a MS Terminal server farm for 4
years with no problems."
Matthew Abrahams
All3media
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"We have had a flawless performance from 2 pairs of Loadbalancer.org ENTERPRISE
appliances for over 5 years without a single problem. Any downtime to our ecommerce
site would be unthinkable."
Gary Besta
Crocus.co.uk
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"We use two pairs of enterprise loadbalancers to handle web traffic for multiple
clients and many well known brands. They are extremely easy to
configure and very adaptable, for instance we also use them to facilitate
automated failover for mysql database servers."
Simon Wilcox
Digital Craftsmen
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"We use the load balancer(s) to manage traffic into our server webfarm for
one of our banking clients. The load balancers ensure that web requests are processed
equally among the 24 servers in our farm"
Marc Murphy
Ergo
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"We replaced our network load balancing with a pair of Enterprise
load balancer devices for our Internal systems, the performance gain was instant,
we simplified our network configuration. When we needed a load balancer for
our public sites there was only one choice so another clustered pair of Enterprise
load balancers were purchased. Simply put they just work."
Andy Scott
CrystalUK |
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"We used a clustered pair of loadbalancers.org appliances to successfully handle
hundreds of thousand of visitors to the official website of this years alpine skiing
world championships in Are, www.are2007.com “
Johan Rolandsson
DependIT
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The TOMMIE ASP hosting solution uses a Loadbalancer.org Enterprise clustered pair
to help us to balance the load across our web server farm, and to allow maintenance
of individual web servers without affecting the service. The solid state design,
use of Open Source software and excellent value offered were major factors in deciding
to go for this solution.
Paul Trickey
Development Director
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"We replaced a CISCO CSS with a pair of Loadbalancer.org SLEDGEHAMMER units.
The change over has resulted in better performance and higher availability for our
ecommerce site."
Chris King
Network80, LLC
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"Our site went from <2mb/sec to over 60mb/sec during the course of one week
and the load-balancers never appeared under duress in any way… they slept
through it.
I was able to pre-configure the entire environment using vmware server to be sure
that what I wanted to do would work effectively. The units are cost effective enough
for us to consider deploying them in high numbers without being forced us to reduce
the number of production servers we deploy to each site."
Jesse Driskill
Grid Networks |
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"We use the loadbalancer in stress testing our web based
interviewing software with thousands of concurrent connections running constantly.
The loadbalancer has proved to be very reliable product and is incredibly easy to
set up and configure."
Paul Quinn
Pulse Train
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“The Enterprise Clustered Pairs are the cornerstone of our business infrastructure.
We provide Mobile Streaming Services to thousands of customers around the world,
and Loadbalancer.org products ensure that we provide the highest level of customer
service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They have ensured 100% uptime for our service,
even when we have experience large scale server failures.
Our technical team found that the Enterprise Clustered Pairs were incredibly easy
to install and configure, but the most important feature of the Clustered Pairs
is that they have continued to do their job invisibly for over a year without anybody
going near them.”
Andrew Saba
MediaHigh
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"Eurogamer have been very happy with loadbalancers from Loadbalancer.org, particularly
due to their speed and stability. We have had no down-time from
our device in over 2 years and they have handled significant traffic ( >15,000,000
page impressions/month) without a hiccup. The appliance is
significantly better value than comparable hardware load-balancers from other corporations.
It is also a blessed relief to be free of the restrictive licensing and support
practices that seem to go hand in hand
with hardware network appliances from other companies. We would strongly recommend
the Loadbalancer.org devices to any companies who plan to handle high volume web
traffic."
Nick Loman
Director
Eurogamer Network Ltd.
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"Our Loadbalancer.org appliances we're very easy to install and they were a
fire and forget installation"
Stephan Tsoucalas
Cobra.Youth Communications GmbH |
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"Worldsoft uses a clustered pair of sledgehammer to serve around 1 million
incoming mails, 600,000 outgoing mails and serves 20k+ websites running on multiple
servers."
"I am very happy with your products. They are products that I CAN understand!
and can trust.
The management is also very pleased with the higher availibility of our services
due to the loadbalancers."
"We also use the loadbalancer for other services such as DNS, POP/IMAP, LDAP
etc."
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