MonsterHosting.ca Pioneers Shared ‘Failover’ Hosting

SURREY, BC (3/28/2006) - MonsterHosting.ca, a Canadian web hosting and e-commerce solutions provider, announced today that it is now offering shared failover web hosting, a new technology that synchronizes website files over several geographically separated web servers.

The technology, which is more economical than conventional redundancy solutions such as server clustering, is guaranteed to deliver at least 99.9% uptime each month.

“We spent a lot of time listening to what business customers are looking for in a web host,” said Lisa Jones, MonsterHosting.ca President. “And we’ve overwhelmingly seen that uptime is the number one priority for most of our target demographic.”

Web hosting accounts enrolled in the program are monitored for uptime on a two-minute basis. If a website is found to be unresponsive, visitors are automatically and transparently directed to a separate server with synchronized files.

“We see a trend in the industry to oversell service at cut rate prices. Our focus is not to compete on these low profit customers, but to provide an affordable service for small to medium sized businesses looking for an economical increased uptime solution,” she said.

Once the primarily server is brought back online and is responsive, the website will switch back to the default configuration.

Failover hosting starts at $15.95/mo, and includes daily file synchronization and includes a 60-Day money back guarantee.

To learn more about MonsteHosting.ca, please visit http://www.monsterhosting.ca. To learn more about Failover Hosting, please visit http://www.monsterhosting.ca/hosting/failoverhostingcanada.php.

About MonsterHosting.ca MonsterHosting.ca, (http://www.monsterhosting.ca) a Surrey, British Columbia based web solutions provider serving well over 2,000 clients, has been in the hosting market since January 2003. The company offers a wide variety of web development services, including domain name registration, email hosting, web hosting, merchant accounts, reseller backup software, VoIP services, SHOUTCast streaming and targeted web traffic.