psinetsharedhosting

PSInet shared hosting

PSINet offers a Shared Hosting service that provides your organization with a secure 24-hour interactive presence and a 100% uptime service level guarantee. The service features a unique architecture with servers that are redundantly connected via high-speed lines to PSINet's backbone. We have designed a unique Web hosting environment that is divided into several application functions:
  • World Wide Web (http)
  • File Transfer (ftp)
  • Content Management (Data Storage)
  • Electronic Payment Processing
  • Multimedia Services
Each application operates on separate servers that are optimized for performance measurements unique to that application. (Other Web hosting providers place your site on one centralized server, which creates a potential single point of failure). We implement backup services to ensure your content is protected, and we provide you with your own domain name, monthly traffic reports, and the ability to write your own CGI scripts. PSINet also provides service level guarantees that your business Web site will be up and running every hour of the day, every day of the year.

World-Class Network Operations and Support
PSINet's Network Operations Center monitors our network 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Field Service teams provide on-site service and solutions, anytime and anywhere. Our Customer Support Group provides telephone and e-mail consultation during business hours to solve problems or improve network performance.
Direct and Redundant Network Access
PSINet servers are directly and redundantly connected to the PSINet network via 100 Mbps Ethernet connections to provide fail-safe circuits and to optimize speed to your Web site.

PSINet Offers a Full Range of Hosting Services
PSINet eCommerce: A complete, integrated, and secure electronic commerce hosting solution for businesses to market and sell around the clock seven days a week.
PSINet Multimedia: Options that present your content in cutting edge environments.
PSINet Web Site Design. A complete turnkey alternative to creating and updating your own Web site in-house.


PSINet Architecture
  • Web site requests are initially routed through one of our redundant carrier-class Cisco routers, Cisco Catalyst, and then to the primary BIG/ip3.
  • The primary load balancer checks each of the Web servers to determine which machine has the least amount of traffic on it, and then routes the Web request to that server.
  • Once the traffic is on the Web server, the server checks to see if the site is held in the cache of that machine. If it is not, the content will be pulled from the data servers.
  • If a Web server should fail, the load balancers will detect this and route traffic to another server.
  • If a data server fails, the Web servers will pull the content from another data server. The data servers are fully mirrored so no content will be lost.
  • The load balancers, Cisco Catalysts, and Cisco routers also are fully redundant.
  


How does PSINet Shared Hosting Service benefit your business?

  • 100% uptime service level guarantee. Your Web site is always ready for your prospects and customers.
  • Your visitors enjoy high-speed access to your site. PSINet servers are directly and redundantly connected to the PSINet network via 100 Mbps Ethernet connections to your Web site.
  • Your site is redundant, rapid, and reliable. Thanks to our unique distributed service architecture, servers are redundantly connected to PSINet's global backbone.
  • Secure content publishing. PSINet has engineered its Shared Hosting Service security so that only you can modify your content.
  • World-class network operations and support. We monitor our network and Web service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • Daily tape back-ups
  • Daily server traffic reports
  • Remote access account (a single PPP account)
Other Providers' architecture
Other providers host customers on a static server, and use architecture that creates a potential single point of failure. The customeršs web page is hosted on a server with the web-hosting software, FTP software, data and any associated applications. If that server goes down, the Web page goes down, and the content will have to be moved to another machine before the site is available again. There is no immediate redundancy.