Which load balancer is the best?

We’ve selected five of the best load balancers to consider for 2019.

1. F5 Load Balancer BIG-IP platforms.
2. A10 Application Delivery & Load Balancer.
3. Citrix ADC (formerly NetScaler ADC)
4. Avi Vantage Software Load Balancer.
5. Radware’s Alteon Application Delivery Controller.

What is high capacity load balancing?

Load balancing refers to efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across a group of backend servers, also known as a server farm or server pool. Ensures high availability and reliability by sending requests only to servers that are online. Provides the flexibility to add or subtract servers as demand dictates.

Which load balancer are required for extreme performance?

If you need to load balance HTTP requests, we recommend you to use Application Load Balancer. For network/transport protocols (layer4 – TCP, UDP) load balancing, and for extreme performance/low latency applications we recommend using Network Load Balancer.

Does load balancer provide high availability?

The load balancer or application delivery controller (ADC) is the key component that ensures high availability. The load balancer intelligently routes client requests to the right server, in a manner that maximizes performance and capacity utilization while sending requests only to servers that are online.

Why we use F5 load balancer?

F5 load balancers are very important devices for distributing and balancing application and network traffic across servers. That is done in order to increase system capacity, with a fast and seamless delivery of packets.

Which load balancer is better layer04 or layer07?

Layer 4 load balancing operates at the intermediate transport layer, which deals with delivery of messages with no regard to the content of the messages. Layer 7 load balancers route network traffic in a much more sophisticated way than Layer 4 load balancers, particularly applicable to TCP‑based traffic such as HTTP.

What is F5 load balancer Wiki?

In 1997, F5 launched its first product, a load balancer called BIG-IP. BIG-IP served the purpose of reallocating server traffic away from overloaded servers. Products and services offered by F5 are used by 48 of the Fortune 50 rely on F5 for load balancing, Layer 7 application security, and API management.

Which load balancers support EC2-Classic?

ELB works at both layer 4 (TCP) and 7 (HTTP) and is the only load balancer that works in EC2-Classic, in case you have a very old AWS account. Also, it’s the only load balancer that supports application-defined sticky session cookies; in contrast, ALB uses its own cookies, and you have no control over that.