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So what is Cloud Hosting and our Hosting Cloud, we hear you ask...

A brief background of Classic Hosting

The majority of web hosting companies run what we call Classic Hosting. This means your web site is stored and hosted on a single shared server with typically hundreds of other domains and web sites. Just imagine if this shared server was filled with corporate web sites. Now imagine just one of these corporate web sites launches a new project, and the shared server quickly becomes flooded with traffic to this one site. Your web site becomes slow, and maybe fails to load altogether. What would your visitors think?

Thankfully, there is a solution to this problem; the Hosting Cloud by Level1 Internet Services.

Virtualisation and Cloud Computing

Our Hosting Cloud technology is based on Virtualisation and Cloud Computing.

Virtualisation technology enables us to take one large, high specification server and then split it in to many virtual servers. Most servers are vastly under-used, and therefore by virtualising (or splitting) a large server in to smaller ones, we are able to save power and resources whilst still delivering a great service. These smaller, virtualised servers are called 'nodes'.

Cloud Computing involves taking a group of high specification servers and linking them together to form one large network. Each server in this network uses virtualisation technology, and because these servers are networked they are able to work together and share resources. This network is what we call the Hosting Cloud.

Our incredible Hosting Cloud technology

Our Hosting Cloud technology consists of 2 keystone components, which are the physical servers and the SAN (Storage Area Network). Nodes are hosted on the latest super-fast, powerful servers, each with Gigabit uplinks to a 10Gb/s+ backbone network. All data is stored on our redundant, speedy and highly scalable SAN platform. This means that our nodes and your sites will always perform at lightning speeds.

The biggest advantages of our Hosting Cloud are expandability and reliability. If we find the Cloud is running low on resources, we can easily add another server to balance the load. When this server is added, the nodes in the Cloud will automatically scale across the new server with minimal (or zero) downtime. Similarly, if a server fails or is taken offline for maintenance, the nodes hosted on that server will automatically move to another server with minimal downtime.

This incredible service is unheard of in the web hosting industry, with only a handful of companies offering such technology. Combined with our amazing Customer Support Team and excellent value for money, our Cloud Web Hosting is probably the best web hosting you can buy!

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