Santa Cruz Solutions now offers full service website hosting for our clients. We are proud to introduce this new program and invite you learn a bit more about what a reliable hosting solution consists of. We have a wide variety of Hosting Plans to accommodate any level of online presence your company may require. Please contact us for more details and pricing.

It All Starts With Storage

Nothing as important as your website should be served from a single hard drive, but you'd be surprised by how many web hosts have little more redundancy than a pair of crossed fingers. We're different--and for good reason. The advanced architecture powering our hosting solution uses groups of high-performance, network attached storage devices to reliably serve every web page, image, and email. Inside each storage device, drives are mirrored to each other in a RAID configuration to create a first level of redundancy. Then, advanced software clusters the storage devices into logical groups, where files are instantly and automatically replicated across each device. And, as a final precautionary measure, all data on the system is automatically backed up continuously.

Cluster Structure

With your content stored securely, the next task is to make sure it's available each and every time it's requested. This is another area where we've taken a decidedly different approach to hosting. Most hosting companies ask, "How can we fit the most websites onto each server?" Sharing a server means an errant script used on a neighboring site can bring your site down as collateral damage. So we decided to turn the question around, asking, "How can we have the most servers respond for each website?"

Advanced clustering technology routes each site request to not just one server, but through an army of load balanced IIS and Apache webservers. Should any server in the cluster not respond, requests are instantly and intelligently routed to the remaining servers, and the website visitor never experiences a single interruption. Contrast that to the more common approach, where a server crash simply means visitors are turned away until a technician has resolved the problem.

Special Agents

The clusters that power our hosting solution are specialized, too; each one designed and optimized to do a specific task, and to do it extremely well. Once again, intelligent routing software analyzes each request, and sends it to a server cluster that performs the task without emulation and without compromise.

Every piece of your web software, from Microsoft technologies like .Net and MS SQL, to popular open source technologies like PHP, can take advantage of the speed and reliability of an optimized, native environment, built through partnership with the actual companies that develop the software.

TrueHybrid™ Technology

TrueHybrid is the best server technologies from both sides of the fence, fused together in a way that just has to be seen to be believed. Our Hosting System makes it possible to upload both ASP (popular in the Windows camp) and PHP files (popular among Linuxheads) to your website--gasp!--right in the same folder. In a rare display of cooperation, both types of pages work flawlessly, side by side, on the same website.

Native Habitats

Here's the best part: it's not just that both files work. It's that both files work natively and automatically. Sure, it's possible for Linux and Windows servers to sort of act like each other through clunky and unreliable emulation, but we have strong feelings about that: it's a hack and it's cheating. The fact is, any technology always works best in its native environment. And providing multiple, native environments is one area where the enterprise cluster powering The Hosting System really shines. No matter what technologies you use to build your site--ASP.net, PHP, Perl, Python, FrontPage, or a combination of all of them--rest assured that your site will have impressive, reliable, and native performance.

An Impressive Balancing Act

So how does it all happen? Right behind our firewalls (which keep your files ultra secure), we've employed quite possibly the most advanced load-balancing technologies ever. Going a step beyond traditional approaches, our Hosting System actually checks the type of each file, sending files to the native clusters where they will preform the best. So every Windows-based page is served from a cluster built and optimized especially for Windows, and every Linux-based page is served from a cluster built and optimized especially for Linux.

It Starts with the Datacenter

The first piece of the Superstructure platform is the datacenter. Rackspace data centers are known as being the best in the business. They're owned and operated by Rackspace and have redundancy in all the critical systems (like power systems, HVAC systems, etc.) They're built for exceptional uptime and are all SAS-70 compliant.

Add in a Zero-Downtime Network

Next up the Superstructure stack is Rackspace's Zero Downtime Network. Rackspace continually ranks at the top of all infrastructure companies for uptime with a network that hasn't been down for even a second over the last 4 years. The network is engineered to ensure that packets of information are delivered to customers in the fastest way possible. They accomplish this using a variety of best-of-breed technologies as well as some proprietary tools they've developed themselves. In fact, the reason we can offer such an aggressive SLA is because Rackspace itself does - 100% network availability.

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