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Load Balancing
Ensure application reliability and scalability.
Meet the needs of your business—today and as you grow—with innovative, flexible load balancing. F5 gives you the power to easily deploy, efficiently monitor, and transparently scale the applications that your business requires to run and to interact with customers and partners—while also mitigating the risk of security breaches.
F5 application-centric load balancing solutions ensure that your customers and partners have access to the applications they need—whenever they need them—by monitoring the health and performance of individual servers in real time.
Unify, simplify, control
F5 load balancing solutions employ F5 iApps to help you deploy 10x to 100x faster with 95 percent fewer configuration mistakes.
The F5 application-centric view allows you to set up customized network services with ease. And by managing application services rather than the individual networking components and configurations, you can dramatically speed deployment, lower operational expenses, and streamline IT operations.
- iApps Templates make it easy and fast to deploy with application-specific configurations.
- The iApps experts on F5 DevCentral are your go-to resources for technical expertise, guidance, and collaboration.
See the health of your network—in real time
Visibility has always been important to application delivery, but it’s even more vital now as applications become more fluid—moving not only from machine to machine but also from location to location.
F5 load balancing solutions give you real-time visibility into the health of your network, so you can efficiently automate processes, easily scale up and down, and detect attacks before they cause costly downtime.
Scale your applications with ease
No matter what happens to a server or how high usage volumes go, users expect your web applications to be accessible at all times. F5 load balancing solutions give you the ability to scale your critical applications transparently, which ensures that your service level agreements and availability goals stay right in line with the requirements of your business.
- Deliver more responsive applications.
- Scale by simply adding servers.
- Seamlessly switch traffic from a problem server.
Easily deploy, scale, and manage your applications
Business runs at light speed, so your network needs to be able to respond rapidly to constantly changing conditions. With load balancing solutions from F5, you can adjust parameters based on whether you’re deploying physically, virtually, or in the cloud. In-place upgrades reduce downtime and maximize operational efficiencies. And you can customize how you intercept, inspect, transform, and direct inbound or outbound application traffic with powerful, flexible iRules.
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Availability across any platform
F5 keeps apps fast and available no matter where users or apps reside.
Load Balancing 101: Nuts and Bolts
Learn the ins and outs of basic load balancing practices—and find out how your business can benefit.
Keep your customers and partners happy
Learn how to eliminate bottlenecks and improve application performance to keep your users coming back.

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