UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator
Learn more about UPSs & diesel backup generators and discover why each hosting data center features them.
UPS is an abbreviation for Uninterruptible Power Supply or Uninterruptible Power Source. It's a battery which is used to power some type of computer or a web server to prevent the loss of info if the main power source fails for reasons unknown or becomes unsafe. A diesel generator pretty much self-explanatory. UPSs and generators are widely-used as a backup in data centers to back up the power supply and to ensure the uninterrupted running of all the machines located there. Since the UPS runs at all times, it offers the desired power for the web servers to remain functioning until the generator starts and takes over. Using such a backup is vital for any data center or hosting company that wants to keep their hardware and information intact in case there is a power surge or outage, as it provides them with ample time to react until the issue is resolved and the main power supply is restored.
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UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Cloud Web Hosting
The 99.9% network and hosting server uptime warranty which we offer you is, in part, a result of the electrical power backup setup which we have in every of the three data centers in which we provide
cloud web hosting packages - in Chicago (USA), in Coventry (UK), and in Sydney (Australia). If you purchase a new account to create or move your websites, it shall be set up on an innovative cloud platform which consists of many clusters handling your content. Each and every machine in the specific cluster features its own effective enterprise-class UPS to keep it operational no matter what, until a number of power generators boot up and provide the necessary power for the entire center to stay functional for several hours. You will not notice anything even in case there is an interruption, as our backup units will be able to power each of the devices and we won't have to reduce the amount of working hosting servers or the network equipment which addresses the traffic to your Internet sites.
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UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Semi-dedicated Servers
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semi-dedicated server accounts we provide you with are created in a state-of-the-art data center in the town center of Chicago and its electrical power backup system is amongst the reasons why we can afford to guarantee a 99.9% uptime for both the hosting servers which are part of our innovative website hosting platform and the network which deals with all the traffic to and from them. An individual UPS device is connected to every machine to keep it online until a number of generators kick in. The latter are efficient enough to offer electric power for the whole data center for several hours with no need to limit the power consumption or the efficiency of any server or network device, so even if there is a disruption, all of the sites hosted on our platform shall still be accessible with no disturbances and will operate at top speed.