We understand the situation of internet congestion and that getting your quotes to you is just as important to us as delivering them in a timely matter.
But, without load balancing in place, users would overload specific servers and with the excess traffic redering these servers less then effective. This would cause a domino effect where users would continually overload new servers making recovery difficult and causing widespread problems across the server farm. Consequently this is why we have the load balancing process in place. Users are automatically routed to servers in an even distribution. To accommodate all the connection we have co-location servers spread throughout the Bay Area as well as across the country to ensure redundancy.
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