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What is clustered failover?

A cluster is a group of servers networked together to share the work load. Failover is the process of transferring operation of a failed server to a backup server to ensure websites remain online even due to hardware failure or maintenance. Failover is used to host mission critical websites that require constant availability.

How does clustered failover improve performance and reliability?

In the event of a server failure our failover system will route all traffic to the available server within the cluster thus keeping your website online and improving reliability. Additionally, by routing database queries to a database server within the cluster we can maximize overall performance resulting in faster response times.

How does the failover work?

Our servers run a failover application that checks the servers every second. If a failure is detected our application will automatically initiate the available server to take over all server services (web, email, mysql, cpanel, etc). Once all server services are failed over (up to 2 minutes) your website will remain online until the failed server is fixed.