• What is clustered failover?
• Why is it better than standard hosting arrangements?
• How does it work?

A cluster is a group of servers networked together to share the work load. Failover is the process of transferring operation of a failed server to a backup server to ensure websites remain online even due to hardware failure or maintanence. Failover is used to host mission critical websites that require constant availability.

In the event of a server failure, our failover system will route all traffic to the available server within the cluster, thus keeping your website online and improving reliability. Database queries are routed to a database server within the cluster, maximizing overall performance and resulting in faster response times.

A failover application checks the servers every second. If a failure is detected, our application will automatically initiate the available server to take over all server services (web, email, mysql, cpanel, etc). Once all server services are failed over (up to 2 minutes) your website will remain online on the available server until the failed server is back online.