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What is WebCluster Enterprise Hosting?

Today, with many business enterprises depending on the availability of their web sites for their very survival, a web site being “down” is simply not acceptable. So our customers demanded – and got – a whole new level of service from us.

In 2001, foreThought.net designed and developed a world-class web hosting system which utilizes advanced 'Clustering' technology to provide extreme reliability and performance. Our cluster is tied together with a load-balancing switch which is capable of supporting many gigabits per second of user traffic.

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Read on below for more details on our world-class hosting platform!

Our Enterprise Hosting system provides:

• The ultimate in uptime - A redundant array of servers means your critical Web Site or E-Commerce System keeps running even if a server fails
• Scalable performance - as the system's load increases, we can simply add generic servers to satisfy the demand. Traffic for all customer sites is balanced across all servers.
• High Security - statefull firewalling and other advanced security features provide excellent 24/7 protection of your sensitive data

How reliable is WebCluster Enterprise Hosting?

Let's be honest - all computers, even the most reliable, will crash sometime. Or need to be taken down for maintenance. Hopefully not very often, but computers are physical things and physical things can break. Rather than try to avoid this truth, WebCluster Enterprise Hosting acknowledges it - and works around it.

• Load-balancing switch automatically redirects incoming traffic to other available systems, within seconds, in the event of a server crash .
• Web site data stored on ultra-reliable file server with RAID-5 disk storage
• 99.939% uptime year-to-date 2003

How secure is WebCluster Enterprise Hosting?

An extremely high level of security has been our goal from day one of our design of WebCluster Enterprise Hosting:

• Linux is a modern, secure UNIX-style operating system, known for its security and reliability
• Industry-leading Apache web server with proprietary foreThought.net-developed extensions is the most secure web server in existence
• Protected by a statefull firewall
• Separation of functions to dedicated “front-end” servers
• Clustering technology allows us to patch security issues immediately without affecting service

How fast is WebCluster Enterprise Hosting?

Our Web processing engines currently sport a combined 11.2 GHz of CPU power and 6 GB of RAM memory. We can scale this performance as demand grows – if we need to, we can configure and install a new front-end server in 20 minutes.

Our system distributes each incoming web page request across all the front-end servers. The typical web page contains many sub-elements: graphics, pop-ups, etc. WebCluster Enterprise Hosting splits the requests for these across all hosting servers -- massively accelerating user response times.

WebCluster is currently serving hundreds of web sites, supporting an average of 800 users per second, and a total of 10 Terabytes per month of data delivered to the Internet.

What kinds of web sites can Enterprise Hosting serve?

Enterprise Hosting is based on the industry-leading Apache web server. Apache is the most widely used web server in the world, with almost twice as many hosted web sites as the closest competitor, Microsoft IIS.

We support the following platform-independent, industry-standard technologies: Perl, CGI, PHP 4.0, server-side includes, mySQL, and much, much more!

So What’s the Bottom Line Here?

In short, foreThought.net's Enterprise Hosting system provides you unparalleled performance, reliability, and growth potential - all for much less than the cost of dedicated servers. Whether your web site gets 1000 users a day -- or 1 million – our Enterprise Hosting solution can keep up with your business. Managed by professionals who have been involved with providing Web Hosting services since the first days of the World Wide Web, WebCluster Enterprise Hosting means you can stop worrying about running a web site and get back to what's truly important: running your business.

Our Enterprise Hosting service is the perfect hosting system for mission-critical Electronic Commerce applications. foreThought.net's PerfectStore is one-such system. PerfectStore was designed from the ground up to take advantage of all that WebCluster has to offer.

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