It All Starts With Storage
Nothing as important as your website should be served from a single hard drive, but you'd be surprised by how many web hosts have little more redundancy than a pair of crossed fingers. We're different--and for good reason. The advanced architecture powering our hosting solution uses groups of high-performance, network attached storage devices to reliably serve every web page, image, and email. Inside each storage device, drives are mirrored to each other in a RAID configuration to create a first level of redundancy. Then, advanced software clusters the storage devices into logical groups, where files are instantly and automatically replicated across each device. And, as a final precautionary measure, all data on the system is automatically backed up continuously.
Cluster Structure
With your content stored securely, the next task is to make sure it's available each and every time it's requested. This is another area where we've taken a decidedly different approach to hosting. Most hosting companies ask, "How can we fit the most websites onto each server?" Sharing a server means an errant script used on a neighboring site can bring your site down as collateral damage. So we decided to turn the question around, asking, "How can we have the most servers respond for each website?"
It took two years and over a million dollars to answer that question, but the results are impressive. Advanced clustering technology routes each site request to not just one server, but through an army of load balanced IIS and Apache webservers. Should any server in the cluster not respond, requests are instantly and intelligently routed to the remaining servers, and the website visitor never experiences a single interruption. Contrast that to the more common approach, where a server crash simply means visitors are turned away until a technician has resolved the problem.
Special Agents
The clusters that power our hosting solution are specialized, too; each one designed and optimized to do a specific task, and to do it extremely well. Once again, intelligent routing software analyzes each request, and sends it to a server cluster that performs the task without emulation and without compromise.
Technologists would say that common hosting setups are riddled with Single Points of Failure or (SPFs). One failure anywhere can wreak havoc on the entire system. Until recently, it's only been large companies like Amazon.com or Yahoo that have had the resources to develop more stable solutions.
Now, for the first time, the system we use bring Enterprise-level technologies to consumers everywhere.
Only the system we host your site on uses TrueHybrid technology to seamlessly combine Linux and Windows technologies--even on the same website.
On our system, you can have PHP, ASP, HTML, Python, and Perl pages all peacefully sharing the same directory.
