Load Balancer

With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web and the increasing commercial interest in the Internet day by day, more and more companies are offering the service of Web hosting and offering access of information that belongs to third-party information providers.

DNS, or Domain Name System, is one of the crucial parts of infrastructure of the Internet. DNS hosting enables FireHost's business continuity capabilities beyond high-availability and load balancing solutions in distributed network system.

"FireHost has been ahead of the curve with regard to securing a public cloud environment and finding advanced ways to boost performance," said Jason Rieger, CTO of FireHost. "Now we move ahead again by multiplying our business continuity offerings, helping our customers prep and plan for the unexpected, and keeping their systems and applications online all the time, even when disaster strikes."

To provide optimal DNS hosting service to clients around the world, the new business continuity options offers constant uptime and sophisticated failover configurations for websites or Web applications. It also allows customers make proactive choices about distributing Web traffic between 17 different failover facilities that redistributed across five continents.

FireHost has an exclusive DNS hosting partnership with Dyn (News - Alert) that offers  paid domain registrations, recursive DNS, e-mail forwarding and redirection, network monitoring and URL redirection, eliminating the worry of extended downtime and management of domain names servers.

The advanced DNS hosting features active failover, traffic management and advanced traffic management.

It allows Web application administrators to pin visitors to the nearest hosting infrastructure for increased speed, performance and budget controls. FireHost delivers application load between global data centers, multiple cloud hosting infrastructures or a variety of content delivery network (CDN) providers.

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