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Reliable Replaced with Cheap?

I’m not sure why the majority of hosting providers today are focusing on
the discount bargin basement hosting services for $.99 and $5 a month
plans. The Internet is becoming more and more of a business tool than
ever before. If the hosting industry and the companies looking for an
idea to stand out from the generic crowd I think more services should
offer backup and failover type services.

Why not have your website down on one server but have another system
have it up and running? Businesses today want redundant, reliable
hosting. What’s worse than their site being offline for a period of time
is the problem of having email go down. No business today can stand
having business offline for a mere 5 minutes. They need something
reliable that’s spam and virus free.

When I find out of a company that offers redundant servers for a single
hosting plan or site with redundant email services and failover systems
I’d be glad to share. So far I see monsterhosting.ca making a nice jump
at the market, I applaud them for this. They’re still trying to keep the
service affordable yet offer an extra level of stability.

Steve

One Response to “Reliable Replaced with Cheap?”

  1. Nathan Says:

    Hi Steve,

    I was having a read of your site and noticed you mentioned redundant servers & the like. We have recently upgraded our servers and all of our servers now operate in load balanced clusters ensuring 100% uptime.

    We also offer mail scanning using a number of antivirus & spam tools.

    In short, we do exist :) just not many companies out there who’ve invested the $$ in their infrastructure.

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