A stable hosting server is really important for online business, or even your personal website. I believe it will affect your website SEO too, when search engine find your website on downtime, they won’t like it. I really don’t mind to pay few more dollars for a reliable hosting.
There is a new technology, which is called Clustered Failover server. This technology made hosting much more reliable than before. Let’s learn something about it.
Clustered failover servers
A cluster means a group of servers networked together to share the network load. For example, we put one server at New York, USA. One server at Toronto, Canada somewhere. And one at Tokyo, Japan. All of them installed a failover application make them to work together to share the network load.
Failover means the process of transferring operation of a failed server to a backup server to ensure websites remain online even due to hardware failure or maintenance. Failover is good for a host mission critical websites that require constant availability. We would like to say, even you have your personal website, you should have host your website on failover servers too. This really help you to keep your visitors coming back. If you are have a business website, you might lose hundreds to thousands of dollars for the website offline in just one day.
Clustered failover can improve server’s performance and reliability.
When a server failure the failover application system will route all traffic to the available server within the cluster and keeping your website online, that means your website will be much more reliability than host on a normal server. For example, if our servers at Tokyo, Japan failure because of earthquake, then the failover application system will automatic search the available server like New York, USA, keep your website will stay online although there is something wrong with the servers at Tokyo, until everything back to normal, our failover application system will route all traffic back to Tokyo.
Additionally, if your website has databases, our system will routing database queries to a database server within the cluster, it can maximize overall performance resulting in faster response times. That means our server can perform better than regular none clustered server. From some webmaster forum we knew that, a faster response times can SEO, and your 10% visitors who still using dialup would be happy about that, you can get more traffic too.
Failover application system theory.
A failover application system installed on a hosting servers will check the servers every second. Suppose failover system detected a server failure, then it will automatically route all the traffic to the available servers to take over all server services like web, email, cpane, database and so on. If server failure last over 2 minutes, then the available servers will take the network loads until the failed server is fixed.
To know more about clustered hosting . Please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustered_hosting |
