Why High Availability?

When you need high availability hosting solutions, Virtacore Systems can help.

High Availability for Your Organization

High availability is crucial to every business. Any downtime reduces productivity, leads to lower customer satisfaction, and ultimately, affects your company’s bottom line. High availability hosting solutions can be managed using the following techniques:

Load Balancing

Load Balancing distributes your activity among the available virtual machines (VM) in your system. As a new activity comes in, load balancing software automatically detects which VM is busy and which one can serve the request. Load balancing also ensures that your entire virtual resources perform efficiently to prevent overloading of any machine at any given time. When one machine becomes busy or needs to be offline for maintenance, traffic will automatically be redirected to the next machine with the most resources available.

Clustering

Clustering techniques are used to improve the performance and availability of your virtual resources. Clustering is achieved by grouping the same types of applications together and distributing the activities based on the type of job it needs to do. Work load is balanced among available machines to improve overall performance. For example, databases can be on one server, email on one server, web server on another server, or as many servers as you need, maximizing efficiency and improving uptime. 

Geographic Redundancy

Geographic redundancy replicates content between two distant locations, making it available and accessible from either location. Should your server experience failure in one location, users can still be served from another location with the same data. You don’t have to worry about losing your data which could have disastrous effects on your business.