Clustered Hosting

When looking for a website hosting solution, there are many options to consider. It's not exactly a straightforward process, as each type of hosting has distinct advantages and disadvantages. Some of the more popular include shared, reseller, dedicated, and clustered hosting. Reseller and shared hosting are disadvantageous because one's websites are hosted on the same server as thousands of others, making allocation of server resources (CPU and RAM) occasionally scarce depending on traffic. Dedicated hosting is great because you have a server to yourself, but it's wildly expensive. One of the most balanced and cost effective solutions is clustered hosting.

Clustered hosting has 3 distinct advantages over comparably priced shared hosting packages:

1) It's more reliable. "Clustered" means the data on your sites is hosted on a network of servers that are linked, or clustered together. If one server goes down, hosting duties are completely and seamlessly picked up by neighboring servers

2) Performance is better. Because the your website data is served from multiple locations, chosen to be most efficient by the controller, loading times are quicker. If a few websites on a shared server are hogging data, your site will suffer.

3) Clustered hosting is more secure. Access to one's account and "Virtual Domain Environment" is self-controlled, unlike the more vulnerable shared options.

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