Another use of Server Mirroring is for Load Balancing. Splitting the traffic among multiple servers enables each server to process incoming queries much faster than if there was only one server handling all requests. Server Mirroring allows unlimited growth, as there is no limit to how many servers can be mirrored in this manner, and typically, the more traffic a website receives, the more servers are used to manage that traffic. Of course if traffic goes down, the number of servers can be reduced to lower the overall cost of hosting. This is the same technology employed by the search engine Google, which has clustered over 100,000 servers together in a similar fashion to build the world's largest super computer.

Price: Free with 2+ Managed Servers
Setup Fee: $99.00

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Additional IPs 

For all plans, add $5.00 per month for each additional unique IP needed in excess of plan limit. Please note that IP space is getting very scarce, and ARIN (the governing body for IP delegation) does not allow IP based hosting unless a site is using an SSL certificate, multiple domain pointing, or server mirroring/load balancing. ARIN periodically audits our IP space to determine if it is being utilized properly, and in some cases websites being hosted on unique IP addresses for any other purpose than above may be required to relinquish their IP space. Therefore, we highly recommend that unique IP addresses are used only for acceptable purposes as described above.

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* All server related recurring charges are billed monthly.
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Our custom Linux operating system, built on the Debian platform, was assembled one component at a time by our experienced Unix/C developers with a sole purpose of running web applications as securely and efficiently as possible. For higher security, no unneeded components or ports are used, and each service is monitored and micromanaged from within the server in real time to detect any type of misuse. Permissions are carefully set for all system files to prevent unauthorized use. Resources are also constantly monitored to maintain acceptable load levels. OS level updates are done on each server using Debian's "apt-get" feature which automatically retrieves the updated packages from their designated online repositories, and installs them in real time. This enables us to install OS security patches system wide as they become available.

Servers set up for Advanced Monitoring are monitored by our staff 24/7/365 to reduce the possibility of prolonged downtime. We make automatic remote connections to all services (Apache, QMail, DNS, Database, FTP, and ASP) every 5 minutes to make sure they are running and responding correctly.

We are often asked by our customers how we can keep most servers running 120 days or longer without a single reboot. The secret is our proprietary ProcessWatch™ server side management utility which works inside the server to identify and remove zombie processes which utilize a high percentage of the CPU or memory resources, and have been running for over a certain amount of time. Most users do not know that a single line of bad code in almost any programming language can bring down an entire server, so making sure such scripts are disabled prior to causing any harm is a key factor in maintaining uptime and fast page loading. This advanced technology handles potential problems before they take the server down, avoiding multiple reboots and downtime. In addition to automatically disabling runaway processes, our staff is automatically notified each time a resource violation occurs along with the exact details of the scripts or commands used to cause the potential crash. This allows us to effectively micro manage a virtually unlimited number of servers with the same effectiveness.

Mail Server Monitoring

One of the biggest complaints about the shared hosting environment is email. Since there are multiple users who share a single mail server, if one user decides to send 10,000 or more outgoing messages using any of the multitude of tools at their disposal. all users will experience mail delays of 3 hours or more. If 100,000 or more messages are sent, that delay can become as high as 12 hours. The conventional method of dealing with such a situation is to purge the mail server queue as soon as a mail delay complaint is received and verified. Although this does eliminate the delay for some time, it permanently deletes all outgoing and some incoming messages for all users, resulting in loss of some or all email processed during that time. To prevent the above from happening, we have developed a special function in our proprietary ProcessWatch™ server side management utility to constantly monitor the mail server message queue, and automatically detect, and purge large volumes of outgoing email from a single source (over 5,000 messages from one sender) which would have otherwise created a significant delay in delivery. If any such violation occurs, both the sender and our security staff is instantly notified to prevent future problems. This utility can also selectively purge any outgoing message(s) from the mail server without shutting it down or affecting normal mail delivery. The end result is a lightning fast, and reliable mail server, with virtually no chance of mail loss.