Does load balancing mean 100% service uptime?
Not necessarily. It’s extremely difficult to achieve true 100% service availability, especially when your servers are connected to the Internet. If your goal is 100% availability, you will need to ensure that every aspect of your network and server infrastructure has redundancy built in. You will require redundant load balancing devices, redundant switches and routers, redundant firewalls, redundant application servers, redundant database servers, etc. Even after deploying a completely redundant infrastructure, you might still see downtime due to network attacks, hacker attacks, software bugs, hardware problems, etc. If you have questions about deploying a highly-redundant infrastructure, Primus’ Managed Services technicians can assist you with your design.
