Coyote Point's Equalizer was chosen after a competitive evaluation. Equalizer is an intelligent load balancing system that distributes requests across server clusters and selects the server best equipped for the next hit. Equalizer knows when a server has failed and automatically directs hits to other machines, preventing failed connections as well as slowdowns. The challenge was particularly great to keep connection times fast on Web Site Garage's Hitometer, a service which tallies site traffic for subscribers. Currently, 1.5 million such images register on the Hitometer every day.
Equalizer makes it easy to prevent such failures.
Equalizer also takes the guesswork and complexity out of cluster management. Its real-time graphical display of server performance maximizes trend analysis and scalability. Server configurations can be adjusted dynamically, with the Web interface, and site administrators can tell at a glance exactly how each server is performing. And if a server must be taken offline for maintenance, it can be done without disrupting user sessions.