Benefits of cluster hosting for your online business
There are many benefits to cluster hosting with UKFast including:
Cluster hosting designed for 99.999% Availability
Cluster hosting provides a fault tolerant architecture that ensures your organisation's mission critical applications achieve 99.999% availability. Cluster hosting implements automatic server recoverability to ensure an application automatically fails over to another server that contains a consistent data set, if one or more servers fail. Should all servers fail cluster hosting ensures an entire system can be safely recovered in a consistent state by using a combination of checkpoints and log execution, giving you no single point of failure.
High performance only a main memory database can deliver
Cluster hosting provides the response time and throughput to meet the most demanding high volume applications. It achieves its performance advantage by being a main memory clustered database solution, which keeps all data in memory and limits bottlenecks by writing transaction logs to disk. Moreover, cluster hosting enables servers to share processing within a cluster, taking full advantage of all hardware.
Extremely fast automatic failover
Cluster hosting delivers extremely fast failover time with sub-second response so your applications can recover quickly in the event of failure. Cluster hosting servers are able to automatically restart, recover, and dynamically reconfigure themselves in case of failures without having to program advanced features into the application.
Lower maintenance costs
Cluster hosting is designed to be largely self-governing so very few system parameters actually need fine-tuning, further reducing the risk of costly errors. As a result, there are typically fewer conflicts with other software and hardware, and less need for manual intervention. This also means that cluster hosting will have a much lower maintenance costs, with less fine tuning required by database administrators.
Dynamic scalability
Cluster hosting is highly configurable so you can implement the appropriate level of performance, scalability and fault tolerance to match your application requirements.
Easy-to-use administration
Cluster hosting includes easy to use and powerful tools for administering your clustered environment. Command line tools enable you to monitor database nodes, control access to applications, and create and restore backups.
For more information on how load balancing of clustered servers can prevent downtime click on the link.
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