High Availability (HA) means access to data and applications whenever needed and with an acceptable level of performance. HA deals with the service aspect of the "system" as an unbroken whole and as perceived by your customers. In this context, reliability (of hardware and software components) and performance (response-time/through-put, tpm, etc.) are parts of system availability. HA is the proportion of time a system is productive and is usually expressed as a percentage. In the spectrum of system availability, HA systems fall between 99.9% and 100% availability.

Each day it becomes more evident that the information era is here: global economies, competition, ever-changing technologies and markets, population mobility, etc. The ability of a business to quickly and intelligently respond in this environment depends directly on the timelines, integrity, and availability of relevant information resources. Accordingly, we have responded to this need with HA hosting solutions.

Consider the following questions to determine if HA is the right solution for you:

• Does your business demand a 100% guaranteed uptime?
• Do your customers depend on your Web site for information and content?
• Do your employees depend on your site for marketing, sales and competitive information?
• Does your Web site receive thousands of hits (even hundreds of thousands) every day?

123hosting Web Hosting's HA solutions include redundant power supplies, server racks with redundant power feeds and independent power circuits, redundant layer-4 switching hardware, redundant network-interface cards, redundant switched Ethernet hubs, redundant hosting servers, and 100 MB/sec Internet connectivity.

Applications deployed utilizing 123hosting Web Hosting's HA solutions receive the following benefits:

• HA to ensure application accessibility
• 24x7 monitoring
• low cost as shared virtual hosing