In today's information-based society, enterprises of all sizes depend on their information assets and the servers and systems on which they are hosted to run their operations.
Certainly, hosting with Prominic.NET creates a world-class environment for your servers— conditioned power, natural gas generator backups, carefully controlled environmentals, and multiple levels of physical and computer-based security all contribute to our superior service levels. But some systems are so critical that they require additional measures to ensure that they are accessible at all times. Prominic.NET's High Availability solutions are the answer.
Prominic.NET High Availability Options
With our hosted High Availability solutions, your systems are protected by additional layers of hardware and network redundancy. We can combine a variety of hardware and software in both dedicated and shared configurations, providing affordable answers to your high availability needs:
- Although ALL systems at Prominic are protected by firewall appliances, devices dedicated to your server or servers provide additional flexibility and the option to add Virtual Private Networking to other locations.
- Our dedicated load-balancing/failover solutions handle high-volume sites, spreading traffic across multiple servers and automatically rerouting the entire load should a particular server fail.
- Our shared load-balancing/failover configurations enable smaller businesses to reap the benefits of a high availability solution that would otherwise be priced out of their reach.
- Alternate servers can be hosted at our secondary data center, providing additional security in the event that physical damage occurs to servers hosted in our primary facility.
Prominic Private Cloud
Use of the public Internet is quite frequently the weakest link in access to critical applications hosted in the "cloud." For more information about how our private and hybrid networking solutions can improve availability evern further, visit our Private Cloud
page or contact our
Sales team for a no-cost, no-obligation design consultation.
High Availability Solutions – Case Study
The Opportunity
A software development company that supports its customers primarily via Internet-based purchases and software downloads is experiencing increased downtime on its internally-hosted servers. The servers need to be available 24/7 for downloads, and, ideally, the load needs to be spread across multiple servers when necessitated by demand.
The Prominic.NET Solution
The software company and Prominic.NET design a dedicated high availability solution that maximizes uptime, virtually eliminating unscheduled downtime:
- Two IBM Lotus Domino servers are configured to host the site, one in each of Prominic.NET’s data centers
- Each server is connected to multiple Internet Service Providers through a dedicated firewall appliance and load balancer
- The two servers are linked over Prominic.NET’s private fiber network for server replication and so that if either server fails the site remains up 24/7/365
The Result
The site is up and so are sales!
High Availability Solutions – Dedicated Solution Pricing
Prominic.NET offers a number of dedicated High Availability solutions, providing a range of resiliency at various price points:
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Feature
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Level 1
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Level 2
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Level 3
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Level 4
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Load Balancing and
Application/Server Failover
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X
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X
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X
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X
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Network Hardware Failover
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-
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-
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X
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X
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Load Balancing and App/Server Failover Across (2) Data Centers
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-
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X
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-
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X
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Load Balancing plus Network HW and Server Failover Across (2) Data Centers
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-
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-
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-
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X
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Setup Fee
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$2,495
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$4,995
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$4,995
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$9,995
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Monthly Fees
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$399
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$799
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$799
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$1,599
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More
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More
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More
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More
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Any of the above packages can be fully customized to meet your needs. All include dedicated network appliances:
- GTA Firewall(s)
- Alteon AceDirector Load Balancer(s)
- Gigabit Ethernet Switch(es)
High Availability Solutions – Shared Solution Pricing
With Prominic.NET's shared packages, even small businesses on a limited budget can afford load balancing and application failover. Although a site may share the hardware with the site of another customer, our firewalls and load balancing equipment still provide a great degree of isolation. The result: for a small investment, your critical applications stay up 24/7 and can be balanced across multiple servers and/or sites.
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Feature
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Level 1
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Level 2
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Load Balancing and Application/Server Failover
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X
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X
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Network Hardware Failover
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-
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-
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Load Balancing Across (2) Data Centers
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-
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X
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Setup Fee
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$499
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$995
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Monthly Fees:
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Per Internet IP Address
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$99
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$199
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Per Inbound Tunnel
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$10
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$20
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More
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More
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Note that our shared High Availability solutions offer the same robust infrastructure as our dedicated offerings:
- GTA Firewall(s)
- Alteon AceDirector Load Balancer(s)
- Gigabit Ethernet Switch(es)
