What is?
A Server farm
A webserver farm or server cluster, also commonly known as clustered web hosting, is a collection of computer servers usually maintained by an enterprise to accomplish server needs far beyond the capability of one machine. Often, server farms will have both a primary and a backup server allocated to a single task, so that in the event of the failure of the primary server, a backup server will take over the primary server's function.
Web Server Farm Sharepoint
Server farms sharepoint is typically co-located with the network switches and/or routers which enable communication between the different parts of the cluster and the users of the cluster.
Server farms are commonly used for cluster computing. Many modern super computers comprise giant server farms of high-speed processors connected by either Gigabit Ethernet or custom interconnects such as Infiniband or Myrinet.
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Another common use of server farms is for web hosting, which are sometimes referred to as web farms.
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Server Farm Configuration
Server farms are increasingly being used instead of or in addition to mainframe computers by large enterprises, although server farms do not as yet reach the same reliability levels as mainframes. Because of the sheer number of computers in large server farms, the configuration failure of individual machines is a commonplace event, and the management of large server farms needs to take this into account, by providing support for redundancy, automatic failover, and rapid re-configuration of the server cluster.
The configuration performance of the very largest server farms (thousands of processors and up) is typically limited by the performance of the data center's cooling systems and the total electricity cost rather than by the performance of the processors. For this reason, the critical design parameter for such systems tends to be performance per watt, rather than performance per processor.
Colo Clustered Hosting Backbone
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The Internap P-NAP Network backbone, Colo’s clustered hosting service also provides, 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 Internet Service Provider(ISP) network access, Performance Internap P-NAP 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.
Clustered Hosting Service Guarantee
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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.
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