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So your business or organization is at the point where you need a managed server with a database for your web site. The problem is that the users accessing your web site expect the site to be fast, always up, highly secure, and their data to be continually guarded and protected from loss. To achieve this you will need multiple servers to ensure availability and protect data in case a server fails, you will need highly reliable primary and failover networking and firewall equipment, and you will likely need to hire a dedicated employee or staff to manage all this equipment with maintenance and backups. Or you could just go with 1 or 2 managed servers and hope they don't crash.

The staff of CIAD Hosting have been working with clients dealing with this dilemma for over 10 years, and 4 years ago developed a new innovative high-end Shared Infrastructure solution just for clients in this situation. The details and benefits of this solution are listed below.

World-Class Reliability Often Below Single Server Hosting Prices CIAD Hosting has developed considerable expertise working on and managing leading-edge hosting infrastructures and connectivity solutions for our worldwide clients. Using this expertise, CIAD Hosting has built and manages a shared infrastructure that rivals custom infrastructures costing $250,000 or more to design, purchase and implement. The infrastructure design includes server clusters and redundant links for capacity and reducing single points of failure, along with simple convenient interfaces for clients to manage content, review activity, and have direct access to daily, weekly, and monthly backups spanning a full 6-month cycle. Click Here to See CIAD Hosting's Infrastructure . . .

Reduced Costs and Exceptional Internet Connectivity CIAD Hosting has directly worked with many Tier 1 Internet companies, and industry-leading hosting providers. With this experience and the select clients we serve, CIAD Hosting has obtained at reduced cost a secure full cabinet collocated at one of the largest Tier 1 worldwide Internet providers. From the combined network needs of our clients, we have also obtained full 100Mbps connectivity directly to the Tier 1 Internet backbone at a cost lower than most first-tier and second-tier hosting providers would pay. CIAD Hosting then passes these savings on to our clients. Click Here to See CIAD Hosting's Network Map . . .

Personalized Support CIAD Hosting only offers access to our shared infrastructure to select clients, allowing us to meet their individual and specialized needs. We take great pride in providing a close business relationship with each one of our clients, understanding their business focus and direction.

Full 24/7 Monitoring by Experts Who Fully Understand Your Site CIAD Hosting monitors Infrastructure systems 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. The Infrastructure is designed with multiple built-in automatic failover systems to help ensure continual operations even in the event of a system failure. A custom monitoring script can be developed for each client, to ensure availability of embedded application(s).

Full Detailed Web Site Statistics To compliment our shared infrastructure solution, and to provide valuable web site information so our clients can ensure that their web sites are performing efficiently and correctly, CIAD Hosting provides automatically generated detailed daily and monthly web site reports that can be accessed from the Client Tools section of this web site.

Actual Bytes Transferred vs. 95th Percentile Most web hosting firms will tell you that 95th percentile is a 'good' thing -- "you get to throw away the top 5% of your highest bandwidth usage". The REAL TRUTH is that with 95th percentile, they measure your site's bandwidth usage every 5 minutes for the entire month, sort the measurements from lowest to highest, then use the 95th percent highest rate and bill you as if you used this rate constantly the entire month. Statistically, and based on many years of measurements you usually end up paying AT LEAST twice as much as you should. But the REAL RISK is when your site experiences extremely high traffic for just over 5 percent of an entire month, then your bandwidth bill could be 10x or even 100x greater than you usually pay -- even though the actual bytes you used may only be slightly more than your typical monthly average. This could result in bandwidth charges in the $1000's or $10,000's -- we know, we have seen companies who have had it happen to them. We at CIAD Hosting feel this is unfair, so that is why we used our influence from working many years with the largest network operators in the country, to negotiate special contractual terms for a billing rate based on actual bytes transferred. Because of this, CIAD Hosting can ALWAYS charge our clients for the Actual Bytes Transferred, regardless if they have more than 5 percent per month of extreme bandwidth usage from press releases, streaming media events, or other unforseen activity.

Comparison with Traditional Large Web Site Hosting Solutions Because CIAD Hosting mantains a single high-end infrastructure for all of our clients, we are able to provide an very robust and secure hosting solution at rates comparable to a single managed server. Click Here to See a Side-by-Side Comparison . . .

Shared Infrastructure Hosting Plans CIAD Hosting provides a range of Shared Infrastructure Hosting Plans to fit your specific needs, all at very reasonable rates when compared with all the costs of a traditional web development and web hosting solution. Click Here to View Hosting Plans . . .