Its Web hosting services are a foundation for secure, reliable, high-performance Web sites. Cisco switching, routing, and load balancing technologies such as LocalDirector are an essential part of our network infrastructure. Genuity's Managed Hosting service includes complete Web-site management, fully leveraging the experience of Genuity's dedicated Internet staff. Another service, Customer Managed Hosting, allows companies to maintain administrative control of their Web sites, while still taking advantage of the benefits of outsourced hosting for data center infrastructure. Genuity maintains its own tier-1 backbone and a portfolio of peering relationships with other major providers to deliver fast, reliable service.
Full redundancy ensures that there is no potential single point of failure.
These servers use advanced load-balancing techniques, based on the number of users seeking access to the Web site. Invariably, they connect users to the server that will produce the fastest response. Genuity's Site Accelerator, another key part of the architecture, caches key content, leveraging its multiple data centers to host high-bandwidth content locally. This is particularly important for streaming multimedia applications. Using LocalDirector along with multiple Web servers allows us to use smaller, less-expensive hardware that can be quickly scaled horizontally as user requests grow.