UPS is an abbreviation for Uninterruptible Power Supply or Uninterruptible Power Source. That is a battery used to power your personal computer or a web server in order to avoid the loss of information when the main source of energy fails for some reason or becomes unsafe. A diesel generator pretty much self-explanatory. UPSs and generators are used as a backup in data centers to back up the power supply and to ensure the uninterrupted operation of all of the machines located there. Since the UPS operates all the time, it provides the necessary power for the machines to remain operational until the generator starts and takes over. Using such a backup is crucial for any data center or hosting company that wants to keep their hardware and info intact in case there is a power surge or outage, as it gives them ample time to react until the issue is resolved and the main power supply is restored.

UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites inside a shared hosting account with us, you'll be able to forget about issues caused by electrical power outages, since, in contrast to various other providers, we don't keep numerous hosting servers attached to a single UPS. Alternatively, every single web server that's part of our avant-garde cloud platform features its own UPS unit which can easily keep it up and running for a long time. In addition, our data centers in the United States, in the UK and in Australia have many different generators which boot up for minutes and that will be able to power all the web servers for an extensive length of time. This way, the performance of your sites or their loading speed will not be affected, so you may enjoy an uninterrupted high-quality web hosting service all of the time.

UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated server accounts we offer are created within a state-of-the-art data center in the downtown area of Chicago and its electrical power backup system is among the reasons why we can afford to guarantee a 99.9% uptime for both the hosting servers that are part of our sophisticated hosting platform and the network which manages all of the traffic to and from them. An individual UPS device is connected to every single machine to keep it online until a number of generators kick in. The latter are potent enough to provide electrical power for the entire data center for a long time with no need to restrict the power consumption or the productivity of any web server or network device, so even when there is an interruption, all of the Internet sites hosted on our platform shall still be available without disruptions and will operate at top speed.