We give Globat top honors for a couple of reasons. First, they give
more bang for the buck as far as storage and transfer allowances. For
just $7.95 per month you get 2500MB of storage and 75GB of transfer;
most of their competitors give only 1000MB and 50GB. And there is no
tradeoff for the extra space and transfer; all of the usual tools are
still here: PHP, Perl, MySQL, and so on.
Second, and more important, is Globat's dedication to server
stability. They have redundancy and backup across the board and they
are located in the same facility as Yahoo and Google. If you've ever had your
site go down for seemingly no reason, you know how important stability
is and how costly those downtimes can be. Globat minimizes those
problems, which can help your bottom line.
Globat is a solid choice for reliable, affordable hosting. Give them
a look.
Go to www.globat.com
Globat's new B2 hosting platform features the redundancy
and backup found only at top-level, commercial Data
Centers. B2 is capable of distributing various areas and
functions of your website across multiple servers; each one manages a
different application for optimum performance. Other hosting companies
run numerous applications on one server, thus increasing the
likelihood of failure.
Our B2 system features Foundry Switches, Network
Appliance Raid 4 Filers and on-line backup machines with additional
disc drives, ensuring that even if one part of our hosting network
goes down your website continues to operate without loss of any
data.
In addition, we employ Nortel Networks Alteon Load Balancers as
virtual "air traffic controllers." Their function is to
direct and distribute incoming traffic to promote your application's
performance and reliability. Should a server ever fail or experience
an unusually heavy load, our Alteon Load Balancers automatically shift
traffic on to backup servers and keep your site running
smoothly. B2 is also comprised of dedicated MySQL servers
that are configured with performance-optimized redundant RAID SCSI
storage for a best-in-class solution.
The network redundancy of the B2 platform is partially
achieved through the utilization of two separate Data Centers that are
on different backbones for additional protection. Our primary
equipment is housed in a cage at our main Data Center, Equinix,
located in downtown Los Angeles, California and is the same one used
by Google, Yahoo and IBM. Our Tier-1 providers include Level (3),
Verio and Mzima Networks and operate over private peering networks to
avoid overcrowded public exchanges. We also maintain a presence at a
second Data Center in Marina del Rey, California exclusively for
secondary DNS and email server backup. This facility uses AT&T and
Time/Warner for connectivity.
B2 lets you focus on your business, not your web site's
uptime.
Go to www.globat.com
