Managedspaces is all you need to maintain your entire online marketing presence
Managedspaces subscription, everything is included. Managedspaces replaces the need for forum software, blog software, a web host, databases, statistics software, and a host of other development and content management programs you’d need to integrate to get a similar website.
When selecting where to host your web presence, reliability, in addition to your site aesthetics, should be a factor of paramount concern. Here are 5 reasons why Managedspaces is unlike any other technology management system.
Every managedspaces site is hosted not on a single server, but a cluster of servers.
This means that if a web server completely crashs for an hour — your site visitors won’t even get logged out of their session, much less notice that your site was on a server that crashed. The enterprise class load balancers and clustering software redirects your traffic seamlessly to a live server. At other hosts, this sort of situation is totally impossible. Your data is likely located on a single server, which is prone to failures and isn’t replicated to other active machines.
Unlike other providers, no end users can run code on our servers.
The fact that all of the modules that are used on your Managedspaces site have been designed and written specifically for this purpose means that the code is optimized to run extremely efficiently and take advantage of the clustered resources — no poorly written user code can consume the hardware.
On traditional shared web hosts, you’ll be sharing a virtual system with potentially hundreds of users. Take a look at any web host’s downtime log to see daily messages detailing how “user X consumed Y resources, causing a server reboot” or “user X had to have script Y stopped”. That can’t happen here — ever. Every piece of code here is expertly crafted fast and reliable.
Traffic spikes to your site are handled automatically.
Because the underlying architecture is clustered — all business sites are hosted using all of the available web servers. Linked on Digg? Slashdotted? The traffic generated from these links is nothing compared to what the thousands of sites hosted on the services see in a single, normal day. A normal day for the architecture serving your Managedspaces site is serving tens of millions of hits.
Compare this to the crippling effect this would have on your slice of resources on a shared web host — you wouldn’t stay online long enough to receive the traffic from your new marketing campaigns.
Managedspaces relies on commercial software, where appropriate, for particular applications.
Open source is awesome. The system uses Tomcat and Linux for the web appliances and numerous other packages across the systems. But there are some other areas in the architecture — such as storage architecture, clustering software (see the above), servers, and databases where we don’t go the cheap route. This saves the downtime associated with “figuring out” the little quirks of certain software applications that can lead to downtime.
Managedspaces is hosted at Peer1 Network in New York City.
On the web, some bandwidth is cheap bandwidth, and some is expensive — the cost difference comes down to reliability. Some web hosts who run single servers connected to unreliable upstream providers can offer very large bandwidth at dirt cheap prices. There’s a reason for that: those hosts didn’t pay a lot for their uplinks.
This system is on the other end of the spectrum — world-class hosting.
We don’t run our own data centre — we are not experts at that. We’re experts at marketing. We rely on real data-centre experts — Peer1 Network — for our connectivity and power sources. It isn’t cheap — the bandwidth at a world class data centre costs more than commodity grade co-location facilities that are prone to power and network failures. How good is Peer1? They not only remained online during the NYC blackout a few years ago — but were nice enough to lend their power to some neighbours in need.
Anyone interested in hosting a serious website not only needs, but requires the infrastructure we supply to you. Think about it: If a traditional web host is partitioning you a slice of a machine with 100 other users on it — how can that possibly compare to hosting using a fully clustered, redundant, and distributed system like Managedspaces can provide you with?
Not to mention, of course, the incredible system is completely managed for you.
Can this infrastructure fail? Of course, even the best systems have points of failure. But a proactive, per-minute monitoring system notifies administrators via mobile phone messages in the event of any service disruption. The system is completely monitored.