Standard Cluster Components
1
Firewall + IDS/IPS
Generally the first layer in a load-balanced cluster, the firewall controls all traffic in & out of your servers. It locks down exploitable ports and prevents malicious traffic from accessing vital resources. Gigenet utilizes Cisco Pix hardware firewalls to protect your cluster.
Learn more about the Cisco Pix Enterprise hardware firewall
2
Load Balancers
Utilizing Zeus Technologies ZXTM traffic management solution, you are able to identify & distribute traffic to any number of hardware resources on Gigenet's network. ZXTM supports all of your server applications, including PHP, mySQL, SQL, email, .NET, or Ruby.
See how ZXTM manages your network traffic
3
Web Servers
Your web servers will run your preferred web server application, generally Apache on Linux or IIS on Windows. Gigenet also offers a specialized light-weight web server called Litespeed. Web servers handle the majority of your HTTP traffic and will serve static web content & images.
Build a webserver
4
Application Services
Many websites today run complex, resource-hogging applications. Think SaaS, social networks, portals, corporate intranets, client extranets. Your application servers will handle the brute of processing for your web applications.
Build an application server
5
Database Servers
Your databases contain critical information that is queried hundreds or even thousands of times per second. This creates a high load on your hard drives. In addition, this data is the core of your business. These servers need to be powerful & redundant.
Build a database server
6
Backup
One of the most crucial and often overlooked components to a cluster - a reliable backup solution. Using R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection, you can schedule short-interval bare metal backups to a secure repository on Gigenet's network. Select file-system or complete drive restores can be performed quickly through an intuitive web interface.
Learn more about R1Soft CDP Backup
7
VPN
Each of your servers will communicate with eachother on a high-speed 1000 Mb/s internal private network. Gigenet's private network is fully routed, and each customer is allocated a private VLAN. Using LDAP and Array Network's SPX series VPN appliances, you can turn off public access to your back-end servers and ensure the highest security, allowing access only to users you identify through our private network.
Learn more about Gigenet's VPN service & high-speed private network
