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News: Web Hosting Company Pleased with EtherDrive Storage Blades
News Web Hosting and Email Service companies are part of the highly competitive Hosting industry. Finding low cost, high reliability solutions for data storage is key for service providers who store other companies’ data.

ABHost, a business web hosting company based in Bellingham, WA has found just the right low cost and scalable storage solution they had been searching for. ABHost turned to Coraid Inc., maker of EtherDrive Storage Blades back in October as their means of storage expansion. Bert Bennett, Business Manager for ABHost says, "EtherDrive storage blades have been a simple, efficient and solid performing way for ABHost to expand its storage needs. I have found no comparable alternatives to EtherDrive - not with its ability to scale, and certainly not in cost. Besides EtherDrive’s scalability, the product provides an elegant solution to allowing independent servers to share data storage."

ABHost utilizes a dual Apache server scheme, serving thousands of customer domains. One server on-line with a hot standby server connected via a heartbeat. If the on-line server goes down the standby server simply mounts the EtherDrive storage and the web hosting is maintained without a service outage. This configuration works well with EtherDrive Storage Blades as they are extremely flexible and can match any scheme. As far as data protection is concerned, ABHost uses a Linux RAID 5 configuration. "We are extremely pleased with how EtherDrive has performed in RAID 5, it provides us with peace of mind in knowing that our customer’s data is available and protected," said Bennett.

ABHost provides hosting services to businesses that include web hosting and e-commerce solutions. ABHost serves over 13,000 domains worldwide and is continuing to grow. Future expansion of ABHost’s storage pool will be done utilizing EtherDrive Storage Blades. ABHost started using EtherDrive because of the low cost. They continue using EtherDrive Storage Blades because of the simplicity, efficiency and performance.
Posted on Monday, February 07 @ 14:11:11 EST by Editor


 
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