Overview

Our multiple server cluster with failover is designed to maximize website performance and eliminate downtime.  Its the perfect solution for hosting mission critical websites that require constant availability.

Typical Web Hosting

Many web hosts run email servers, web servers, and database servers all on the same stand-alone server.  Although they may have several such servers, each server is hosting it's own sites and databases.  Nightly backups are created and used to recover in the event of a failure. 

Bluff City Consulting's Clustered Failover Hosting 

At Bluff City, our servers are grouped in clusters.  Within each cluster, dedicated database servers handle all of the database activity.  Your webserver and email server will be running on a different server in the cluster.  Separating the database server from the webserver improves performance.  It allows us to tune our database servers to address their unique requirements.

If a server in the cluster fails, all traffic destined for that server will be automatically routed to another server in the cluster.  Since we mirror all of our disks in realtime, your data will still be available to the failover server.

The result?  More work for us but better web hosting for you. 

Servers Used in Cluster

All servers within a cluster run Dual Intel Xeon processors with 2 GB of memory, SATA II hot-swappable drives, and 3ware hardware RAID-1.

We use the Linux CentOS operating system, the most popular server operating system in the industry today.  Linux CentOS provides a secure, robust, and reliable platform for web hosting environments.