DrakNet Announces New High Availability Shared Package
DrakNet is announcing a new shared hosting package targeted to small businesses that need high availability and redundancy on a smaller budget.
The new DrakNet Shared Failover Package is an insurance package for sites that cannot afford down time, or what we affectionately like to call “poor man’s redundancy”. In most situations, when you want to guaranty high availability the amount that you pay is going to go up exponentially in relation to the amount of redundancy you wish to have. These solutions have always been available, but only DrakNet has brought it together in one single package under the banner of one company that takes care of at all for less than $100 a month.
The Shared Failover Package includes two Bells and Whistles accounts, one located at our primary data center with Liquid Web in Lansing Michigan, and a secondary backup Bells and Whistles account at one of our secondary data centers at Wired Tree in Chicago, Illinois.
Instead of using DrakNet’s standard nameservers, we provide you with 5 enterprise name servers with integrated monitoring and automatic failover from outside both data centers from geographically dispersed locations - if, for any reason, your site’s availability stops on our primary servers, the integrated failover system will launch into action and make an immediate change to your DNS sending your clients, customers or readers to the backup installation on the Wired Tree Server.
With the $60 a month package, you are given the logins and access to both. You can choose to mirror the site completely by setting up your own software to sync the installations, or if you have a static site you can set it up once and forget about it, knowing that it’s ready to take over should there be any issues whatsoever with our main data center or the server you are on. Once the crisis passes, your site will be moved back to the main server.
With the $90 a month package, we will mirror the data on the backup site once a week for you. If you have a dynamic site that constantly changes, we can mirror the data at any frequency that you specify. Contact us with your needs and we’ll be happy to provide you with a quote.
