UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator
What's a UPS unit? What is a diesel backup generator? Why are they present in every data center facility?
The UPS and the diesel generator are 2 instruments for keeping a web server functional if there are difficulties with the main power source - an outage or unreliable current that cannot keep the hosting server functioning properly, for example. UPS is an abbreviation for Uninterruptible Power Supply, even though it is oftentimes called Uninterruptible Power Source too. The UPS is, basically, an efficient battery that is connected to the hosting server and to the electricity network all of the time, so if there is any disturbance, it is already working, that permits the hosting server to carry on running without losing any info. The diesel generator is an engine that can power up the whole data center. It needs some time to begin working and it's the UPS that provides this time. These 2 power solutions are an absolute necessity for any facility or service provider that wants to prevent data loss and hardware damage as a result of an unexpected power issue.
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UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Web Hosting
If you host your sites in a
web hosting account with our company, you can forget about complications caused by electric power outages, due to the fact that, unlike all kinds of other providers, we do not keep many different servers attached to a single UPS. Alternatively, every machine which is part of our avant-garde cloud platform has its own UPS unit that can keep it up and running for hours. Additionally, our data centers in the U.S., in the UK and in Australia have many different generators that boot up for minutes and that are able to power all the hosting servers for an extensive period of time. In this way, the overall performance of your sites or their loading speed will not be affected, so you'll be able to enjoy an uninterrupted high-quality web hosting service at all times.
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UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We provide
semi-dedicated server accounts in our data center in the downtown area of Chicago and amongst the reasons behind our 99.9% uptime warranty is the exceptional backup setup which the facility provides. Your new account will be set up on our top-notch web hosting platform and each one of the hosting servers which are part of it provides its own potent UPS unit which will ensure that it stays 100% operational at optimum capacity until several diesel generators take over. The latter will keep the entire data center working for a long length of time, without any limitations on the quantity or the kind of devices that can work, so you will not see any difference in the functionality or the loading speed of any website which you host there. With our semi-dedicated hosting servers, you'll have the ability to use a top-quality web hosting service with no disruptions of any sort.