UPS is an abbreviation for Uninterruptible Power Supply or Uninterruptible Power Source. It is a battery used to power a PC or a server in order to avoid the loss of information if the main power supply fails for whatever 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 and to ensure the constant running of all of the servers located there. Due to the fact that the UPS works at all times, it provides the required power for the machines to remain working until the generator starts and takes over. Using such a backup is a must for any data center or hosting company that wants to keep their hardware and info intact in the case of a power surge or outage, since it provides them with enough time to react until the problem is resolved and the main power supply is restored.

UPS & Diesel Back-up Generator in Hosting

If you host your Internet sites within a hosting account with us, you will be able to forget about complications caused by electric power outages, because, unlike all kinds of other providers, we do not keep multiple hosting servers attached to one UPS. Instead, each individual server that is part of our avant-garde cloud platform features its own UPS unit which can keep it up and running for hours. In addition, our data centers in the U.S., in the UK and in Australia have numerous generators which boot up for minutes and which can power each of the hosting servers for an extensive amount of time. In this way, the features of your Internet sites or their loading speed shall not be affected, so you can 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 that we offer you are created inside a state-of-the-art data center in the downtown area of Chicago and its electrical power backup system is amongst the reasons why we can afford to guarantee a 99.9% uptime for both the machines which are part of our advanced hosting platform and the network which deals with all the traffic to and from them. An individual UPS device is connected to every machine to keep it online until several generators kick in. The latter are powerful enough to provide electricity for the entire center for several hours without having to limit the power consumption or the functionality of any web server or network device, so even in the event that there is a blackout, all the sites hosted on our platform will still be accessible without interruptions and will perform at top speed.