Web Host Offers Dual Hosting to Eliminate Downtime

In the 24/7 online world, no company can afford for its homepage to be unavailable for any period of time. Web host 1&1 has launched a new dual hosting range of packages with the goal of eliminating downtime for clients.

Dual hosting means that your website is stored in two geographically separate data centers in order to add location redundancy to other security measures. 1&1, based in Germany, is the first big hosting provider to make the double security of geo-redundant servers available on budget hosting packages. This guarantee of maximum availability 365 days a year was previously accessible only to companies with a large budget. With dual hosting, all of a client's data is mirrored across two of 1&1's sites almost in real-time. If any problems occur at one of the locations, including an electricity or server blackout, client sites are automatically taken over by the other data center.