Shared Web Hosting Platform Overview

Primus has developed and deployed an advanced, highly redundant, highly scalable, distributed shared web hosting platform.

• A gigabit-Ethernet network for massive data throughput
• High-performance, redundant firewalls with automatic failover
• High-performance, redundant load balancers (traffic directors) with automatic failover
• Scalable, highly-reliable back-end file servers for storing customer data with regular data "snapshots" and tape backups
• Distributed, load-balanced (redundant) web and application servers - separate servers for CGI, ASP, Coldfusion, JSP
• Separate database servers for mySQL and MS-SQL
• Separate servers for FTP access

• high scalability allows it to handle massive traffic volumes
• load balancers can identify failed servers (hardware failures) and software failures and redirect traffic to other nodes
• separate database servers for maximum performance and reliability
• load balanced servers allow Primus to upgrade servers without any customer downtime

Shared Web Hosting Hybrid Technology

The Primus shared web hosting platform is also a "hybrid" platform. That is, it supports both UNIX (Linux) based technologies and Microsoft Windows based technologies. These different technologies can be blended together seamlessly on the same website.

For example, a customer could develop parts of their website in any or all of PERL, PHP, ASP, JSP and Coldfusion and all of these languages could read/write data from a backend database.

Further Information

• Shared Web Hosting - Platform Overview
• Shared Web Hosting - Pricing and Features

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Why Host with Primus?

• Our Multi-Homed, Redundant Backbone
• Our Class "A" Data Centers
  • Toronto Data Center
  • Ottawa Data Center
  • Edmonton Data Center
  • London Data Center
  • Vancouver Data Center