Before installing Equalizer, Shanje's reliability was constantly threatened by customers' malfunctioning scripts and by memory leaks within the OS, databases, and application servers.
Equalizer avoids downtime by automatically bypassing down servers.
It also reduces connection time by routing incoming traffic among server clusters, using multiple criteria to determine which server is best equipped to take each hit. Shanje offers Virtual Server Hosting, a solution enabling web designer to pay a flat rate for an unlimited number of domains, ftp accounts, databases, and email accounts. The combination of flat rates and high availability has made Shanje's Virtual Server Hosting a popular solution for web designers. The increased reliability enabled by Equalizer has helped Shanje grow its virtual server hosting service from 3,000 sites hosted in August 1999, when the company installed its first Equalizer, to over 21,000 today. As with any growth spurt, Shanje's caused some growing pains.