Clustered or Cloud Hosting is designed to eliminate the problems inherent with typical shared hosting infrastructures. The technology provides a clustered handling of security, load balancing and necessary site resources.

Clustered or Cloud Hosting virtualizes your resources beyond the limits of one physical piece of hardware. A Web site and applications are not limited to one server. You access the processing power of many servers and your applications are distributed in real-time. This means that you can purchase as much computing power as you need from a virtually inexhaustible source, and even the largest customer never consumes more than a fraction of a percent of the total server pools processing capacity.

Traffic is dynamically load-balanced across many Web servers by Clustered Hosting as well, so the impact of an increased load is diluted. Additional servers can be added to the cluster with no impact on active customers. Clustering ensures that Web servers are available to handle huge spikes in traffic.

Another feature of a Clustered Hosting Virtual Environemernt is the Hybrid aspect. This is the answer in supporting all web technologies on one platform. A clustered hosting environment should support server technologies from both sides of the fence, fused together in a way that just has to be seen to be believed. Hybrid clustered hosting makes it possible to upload both ASP (popular in the Windows camp) and PHP files (popular among Linuxheads) to your website gasp right in the same folder. In a rare display of cooperation, both types of pages work flawlessly, side by side, on the same website.

Here's the best part: it's not just that both files work. It's that both files work natively and automatically. Sure, it's possible for Linux and Windows servers to sort of act like each other through clunky and unreliable emulation, but we have strong feelings about that: it's a hack and it's cheating. The fact is, any technology always works best in its native environment. And providing multiple, native environments is one area where the enterprise cluster really shines. No matter what technologies you use to build your site ASP.net, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, Python or a combination of all of them rest assured that your site will have impressive, reliable, and native performance.