Please define Grid Hosting, Cloud Servers, and Failover Clusters, what do they mean?

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	Please define Grid Hosting, Cloud Servers, and Failover Clusters, what do they mean?

Solution The terms used in the hosting industry today are just as complex as the technology behind them.

To define Grid Hosting, Cloud Servers, or even Failover Cluster Hosting would require only one definition, because each are essentially the same thing. This fact alone will help clear up any confusion regarding the terminology.

Cloud Hosting is an advanced web hosting platform offered by mirahost and in the most basic sense means web services, such as website hosting and email hosting, are spread across an array of computers actively working as a team. This is in contrast to typical shared hosting environments where one physical computer will provide mail, web, and other hosting services to a large number of websites.

Simply put, instead of one computer or server providing many different services to many different websites, Grid Hosting is a group of servers linked together via a private network working as one entity but sharing the load and resources of a team.

The greatest benefit to this concept is that if one member of the Cluster Hosting team goes offline the other members of the team will continue to serve as a unified group. What this means is that your website and email will remain online regardless of a server failure. In the normal shared hosting environment if the one server that is providing web services fails, all those services will be offline until the server can be restored.

Cloud Hosting is an incredible advancement in the hosting industry and mirahost is proud to offer this level of service for your business needs.

Learn more about mirahost Cloud Hosting and what it can do for your business.

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18 Nov 2009 03:32 PM