Clustered or Cloud Hosting is designed to eliminate the problems inherent with typical shared hosting infrastructures. The technology provides a ‘clustered’ handling of security, load balancing and necessary site resources.

Clustered or Cloud Hosting ‘virtualizes’ your resources beyond the limits of one physical piece of hardware. A  Web site and applications are not limited to one server. You access the processing power of many servers and your applications are distributed in real-time. This means that you can purchase as much computing power as you need from a virtually inexhaustible source, and even the largest customer never consumes more than a fraction of a percent of the total server pools’ processing capacity.

Clustered Hosting also places controls and protections on scripts. A poorly written script can cripple a server; Clustered Hostingsecures and assigns script processes to individual accounts by isolating script processes with our patented ‘Virtual Domain Environment’, so a script with loops and critical flaws will only impact the performance of the site it is included on.

Traffic is dynamically load-balanced across many Web servers by Clustered Hosting as well, so the impact of an increased load is diluted. Additional servers can be added to the cluster with no impact on active customers. Clustering ensures that Web servers are available to handle huge spikes in traffic.

Security is a fundamental feature of Clustered Hosting, not an afterthought. There are multiple tiers of security protections integrated into the Clustered Hosting platform, including intelligent routing, redundant switching fabric, and built in firewall and proxy technology. Clustered Hosting protects against both internal attacks common to shared platforms, as well as Denial of Service and other external types of attacks targeting Web servers.

A hosting cloud or cluster offers power without complexity to provide significant benefits for developers. Current solutions are often complicated and require additional coding to use. The new technology on the other hand, enables developers to get their applications up and running in three easy steps: choose a domain, select operating system of choice and set default technology. Other recently added features of clustered hosting include Ruby on Rails, Windows2008/IIS7 hosting and SFTP access.

Another feature of a Clustered Hosting Virtual Environemernt  is the Hybrid aspect. This is the answer in supporting all web technologies on one platform. A clustered hosting environment should support  server technologies from both sides of the fence, fused together in a way that just has to be seen to be believed. Hybrid clustered hosting makes it possible to upload both ASP (popular in the Windows camp) and PHP files (popular among Linuxheads) to your website gasp right in the same folder. In a rare display of cooperation, both types of pages work flawlessly, side by side, on the same website.

Here's the best part: it's not just that both files work. It's that both files work natively and automatically. Sure, it's possible for Linux and Windows serversto sort of act like each other through clunky and unreliable emulation, but we have strong feelings about that: it's a hack and it's cheating. The fact is, any technology always works best in its native environment. And providing multiple, native environments is one area where the enterprise cluster really shines. No matter what technologies you use to build your site ASP.net, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, Python or a combination of all of them rest assured that your site will have impressive, reliable, and native performance.

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