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Clustered Hosting
Clustered hosting technology is designed to eliminate the problems inherent with typical shared hosting infrastructures. This technology provides customers with a “clustered” handling of security, load balancing, and necessary website resources.
A clustered hosting platform is data-driven, which means that no human interaction is needed to provision a new account to the platform.
Clustered hosting "virtualizes" the resources beyond the limits of one physical server, and as a result, a website is not limited to one server. They share the processing power of many servers and their applications are distributed in real-time. This means that they can purchase as much computing power as they want from a virtually inexhaustible source, since even the largest customer never consumes more than a fraction of a percent of the total server pool. Customer account changes (to add new resources or change settings) are propagated immediately to every server in the cluster. This is different from typical shared hosting architectures that usually require changes to a configuration file that becomes live after the server is rebooted during off hours, or are pushed on a cyclic basis every few hours.
Multiple tiers of security are integrated into the clustered hosting platform. In a typical hosting environment, the security layer is usually not integrated in the platform. The stock solutions used for shared hosting do not solve core issues around integrating security between the application and the operating system. At best, most typical hosts will implement a firewall solution, and weaknesses inherent with the operating system will remain exploitable to those that penetrate the firewall.
Clustered hosting network layer protections employ intelligent routing, redundant switching fabric and built in firewall and proxy technology. Clustered hosting provides considerable advantages over traditional hosting architectures in mitigating denial-of-service attacks and other network attacks because such attacks can be dispersed over a large pool of servers, and if individual hardware components are impacted by such attacks, they automatically fall out of traffic handling during the attack.
Colo Clustered Hosting Backbone
Colo web hosting has a backbone powered by Level 3 ™ and Internap. Level 3 ™ has built an advanced fiber-optic network utilizing Internet Protocol (IP) based technology. The Level 3 ™ network combines both local and long distance networks connecting customer’s end-to-end. The company has 92 markets in service; 72 in the United States and 20 in Europe.
The Internap P-NAP Network backbone uses it’s patented technology and the existing Internet network infrastructure, Internap created an innovative way to route data and avoid the Internet's points of congestion. Rather than provisioning traditional single ISP network access, Performance IP service intelligently routes across up to 8 integrated Network Service Providers (NSP) networks in the Internap Private Network Access Points (P-NAPs). This insulates your traffic from the risk of network outages, providing reliable, stable and predictable connectivity.
Colo Clustered Hosting Service Guarantee
Unlike our competition, Internap approaches customer service and support proactively. Through constant network monitoring and management, we are able to alert our customers to network issues and correct them efficiently. Internap has purposefully defined our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to lead the industry, so customers get reliable performance supported with proactive service and crediting - that's why our agreement is a guarantee.
Guaranteed North American performance metrics includes: 100% network availability,less than 45 milliseconds latency, less than 0.3% packet loss, and less than 0.5 millisecond jitter. In case there is ever a problem with the service, we provide 24x7x365 direct access to certified networking engineers in our Network Operations Centers (NOCs), not ticket takers. Our certified network engineers have the expertise and visibility into all major Internet backbones to see and resolve issues quickly and effectively.
Colo provides a secure full service network operation center with 24-7-365 on location remote hands to keep your business' mission critical services online. Contact our team of web hosting specialists, we’re ready to help. We’ll be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Call toll free at 1-866-316-2656 or email us through our request a call back form on this page(top right).