Companies suddenly flooded with online traffic that they could not handle would search frantically for a means to shorten customers' connection times and provide failover in the event that a server went down suddenly. Established in 1972 as a retailer in Seattle's Pike Place Farmers' Market and as a direct marketer in 1988, Sur La Table began developing an e-commerce site in June of 1999. Equalizer, an intelligent load balancing appliance, routes incoming traffic among server clusters, using multiple criteria to determine which server is best equipped to take each hit.
Equalizer provides failover by detecting server failure and automatically bypassing failed servers.
Active Content Verification tests all components of each server in each cluster, ensuring that not only server hardware but also the server operating system and application software are fully operational. A browser-based graphical display of server and cluster performance makes it easy to determine when more server capacity is needed. Installation went smoothly, and Coyote Point's tech support easily dealt with minor glitches. Down Server is No Problem Also from the start, Coyote Point's Equalizer has ensured that 24x7 uptime for Sur La Table's 4,500 product listings. Equalizer's been the good angel in our infrastructure - invisible, but worth its weight in gold.