Load Division - The majority of dedicated servers are responsible for running multiple services for your business, including HTTP, SMTP/POP/IMAP mail, CGI/scripting, and MySQL. Depending on usage each of these services adds load to your server and as you begin to near your server's capacity you will start to notice performance degradation. To keep your traffic flowing our first policy is load division, which simply means we take heavily used services and move them on to dedicated servers. In practice this would be reflected in moving a service like MySQL off on to a dedicated server, or setting up a dedicated machine for processing html and graphics-only requests. The benefits from load divison are immediate as your once taxed main server now has had resources freed up as some of the services it was running have been migrated on to other machines.

Load Distribution - If load division alone is not enough to allow your servers to function within their capacity limits, we further subdivide your resources by load balancing specific services over several servers. This is reflected in load balancing your Apache Web Server over several dedicated servers or load balancing your MySQL service by using MySQL replication to create a load balanced SQL solution.