High Availability Hosting Solution

Secure Hosting and Clustering for High Availability Solutions

As such, our HA hosting clients experience virtually no unscheduled downtime for very long periods of time, often years. We configure dynamic Windows and Linux environments capable of providing High Availability for virtually every critical service:

• Web/HTTP based applications like PHP, ASP, Apache
• Exchange and Outlook Web Access
• SSL VPN
• Database Clustering
• Email Services
• Streaming Media

Some HA hosting providers characterize High Availability systems as "normal" availability systems with redundant hardware components, but oversimplification does little to limit or prevent network disruption when hosting component(s) fail.

Four key areas govern our HA hosting systems:

Backup and Redundancy

• Frequency, storage location, encryption, retention, and inclusiveness of data backup and replication play a role in making your most recent files available to site visitors and internal users
• Database caching for master databases that store transactional information such as a product catalog help alleviate botlenecks that can take your website offline

Failover Procedures and Scheduled Maintenance

• Maintaining up-to-date, tested failover procedures provides high fault tolerance and allows critical systems such as database(s) and user access to be restored quickly in the event of power outage, crash, act of terrorism, or natural disaster
• Failover redundancy costs actually decrease as you add more independent nodes to the hardware environment because each component can function at partial processor utilization rather than running at maximum capacity around the clock

Restoration and Data Synchronization

• Disk mirroring, redundant network connections, SAN replication, database replication and redundant electrical power play a role in keeping High Availability systems online, running smoothly after a crash or power interruption

Scalability, Performance, and Load Distribution

• Peaks in usage and overall growth in usage metrics are handled more reliably when High Availability hosting techniques are in place
• Requests may be spread across multiple servers, data centers, or networks

Expert systems design, planning and implementation of these features may not be sufficient however. Our stringent and routine testing policies for procedures and hardware function in the High Availability environment set us apart from other HA hosting providers.