UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator
What is a UPS unit? What is a diesel backup generator? Why exactly are they present in every data center facility?
UPS is an abbreviation for Uninterruptible Power Supply or Uninterruptible Power Source. It is a battery that is used to power some type of computer or a server to avoid the loss of info if the main source of energy fails for some reason or becomes unsafe. A diesel generator is more or less self-explanatory. UPSs and generators are used as a backup in data centers to back up the main power source and to guarantee the continuous running of all of the web servers located there. Due to the fact that the UPS runs at all times, it offers the desired power for the servers to remain operational until the generator starts and takes over. Using this kind of a backup is crucial for any data center or hosting company that wants to keep their hardware and information intact in case of a power surge or outage, due to the fact that it provides them with plenty of time to react until the problem is resolved and the main power supply is restored.
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UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Shared Hosting
If you host your websites inside a
shared hosting account with our company, you'll be able to forget about troubles caused by electrical power blackouts, due to the fact that, different from various other providers, we do not keep many different hosting servers attached to only one UPS. Alternatively, every single server that's part of our avant-garde cloud platform features its own UPS unit that shall be able to keep it functioning for hours on end. Additionally, our data centers in the U.S., in the UK and in Australia have a number of generators which boot up for minutes and which will power each of the web servers for an extensive amount of time. In this way, the performance of your Internet sites or their loading speed won't be affected, so you can enjoy an uninterrupted high-quality hosting service constantly.
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UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Semi-dedicated Servers
The
semi-dedicated server accounts which we offer you are created within a state-of-the-art data center in the town center of Chicago and its electrical power backup system is one of the reasons why we can afford to guarantee a 99.9% uptime for both the web servers which are part of our innovative hosting platform and the network which handles all of the traffic to and from them. An individual UPS system is connected to each and every hosting server to keep it online until a variety of generators kick in. The latter are powerful enough to provide electricity for the entire data center for a long time without the need to minimize the power consumption or the overall performance of any hosting server or network device, so even if there is an outage, all the websites hosted on our platform will still be available with no disturbances and will function at top speed.