Failover hosting essentially consists of two separate servers that have a “heartbeat” cable running between them. The main server, which normally hosts the website and stores data, sends electronic signals to the secondary server. Should the main server fail, these signals will cease, thus causing the secondary server to immediately take over the task of hosting the website. Each server is updated simultaneously, so that they always have the same type of data. This is called redundancy, and it is used to keep one server from getting ahead of the other and thus losing track of data.

Failover hosting can have a number of other benefits and features. Occasionally, there is a third server called a “spare parts” server, which is used to decrease downtime while failback is being performed. Failback refers to the process of restoring the original server to its normal capacity after it has failed. The second server may also be able to send a page to a technician or support center in order to get someone on the scene quickly to failback the original machine. Using failover in your hosting service is an excellent way to cut down on the amount of time your site is down during maintenance or technical problems, and will ensure that you don’t lose any important information in the case of any technical problems.

There are a lot of things that you will want to avoid losing, particularly if you run a business online, and failover hosting is simply the best way to prevent that. There are several ways to use failover, as it might be automated or be initiated by a human technician, but in the end it serves as the only way to not only back up data but increase overall downtime.

So how does one choose the best host? Here are some points to consider, and how we fit into the picture.

Customer Service: The last thing you want is to watch your website go offline, and have no one available to help you. At HostingZoom, that won’t happen. We offer several methods of support: trouble ticket, chat, telephone, and we even offer a Support Manager who can address issues if you feel that you’re not getting the attention you deserve.

Reliability: Obviously, you need your host to be reliable. You want your website up 24/7, right? We offer clustered failover hosting, which means that if one server goes offline, your website can stay up. With most hosts, if the server that your website is hosted on goes offline, your website goes with it. That’s not the case with HostingZoom, which means more uptime for your website or blog.

Trust: We understand that some customers may be hesitant to trust a company that they don’t physically visit. We’re located in Houston, Texas, and are accredited by the Better Business Bureau. We are not a “fly by night” company; our parent company, Landis Holdings, Inc., has been around for 11 years. Unfortunately, there are quite a few “hosting companies” run by teenagers out of their bedrooms. While their desire to run a business at such a young age is admirable, your website needs to be in the hands of a company with experience, and resources.

Ease of use: What good is a hosting company if you can’t use their services easily? At HostingZoom, we make the entire process easy for you. In fact, we’ll even help you move from your old host, as long as you use Cpanel as your control panel environment. Not many hosts offer that service!

Here at HostingZoom, we care about all of our customers, and when you sign up for service with us, you’re more than just a number. We think that when you apply the factors mentioned above to any host you may be considering, you’ll see that HostingZoom is the smart move!

“In spite of the uncertain economic conditions in the market, our customers are finding ways to generate incremental revenues through providing valuable hosting services,” says Greg Landis, president of Hosting Zoom. “Our goal was to give them the tools and enable their success. Competitively priced plans running on the best machines with a healthy heaping of add-on features are a winning formula.”

Shared hosting plans on Hosting Zoom begin as low as $4.95 per month with all the disk space and bandwidth the majority of customers need. Failover hosting plans offer fuly redundant servers for failover, free private SSLs, and free domain hosting from only $10.95.

Hosting Zoom Hybrid Servers

Hosting Zoom is proud to announce a new lineup of Hybrid Servers, where semi-dedicated meets VPS. Choose from two Hybrid plans starting from only $99 per month for 100GB space, 1,500GB bandwidth and 2GB memory. All Hybrid plans include:

• Free ClientExec software
• Free WHM/cPanel or Plesk
• Free full management
• Free R1Soft Continuous Backups
• Unlimited domains
• Limited to only 3 main clients per node full root

Hosting Zoom Dedicated Servers

Choose from four dedicated servers from:

1. E7200 (Dual Core), 2GB RAM, 2×250GB disk space – $219 per month
2. Xeon X3330 (Quad Core), 4GB RAM, 2X500GB disk space – $269 per month
3. Xeon X3330 (Quad Core), 8GB RAM, 4X500GB disk space with RAID – $319 per month
4. 2X E5405 (Quad Core), 16GB RAM, 8X500GB disk space with RAID 0, 1 or 10 – $599 per month

All dedicated plans have buydown options, and include 5 IPs, 2,000GB bandwidth, remote reboot availability, and R1Soft backup add-on.

Reseller Zoom Reseller Plans

New Reseller Zoom reseller plans offer three tiers: Budget, Advanced and Failover.

Budget Reseller Plans are starter plans with value for webmasters to host multiple low traffic websites under the same account starting from only $5.95 a month, which includes 7GB disk space, 70GB bandwidth, and 20 cPanel accounts.

Advanced Reseller Plans are great for resellers to provide web hosting as a value added service and make residual income. The Advanced servers have 50% less resellers compared to the budget plan and suitable for reselling. Advanced plans begin at only $17.95 a month with 25GB of disk space, 250GB bandwidth, and unlimited accounts.

Reseller Zoom’s advanced Clustered Failover hosting system improves performance and eliminates prolonged downtime so you get a faster response and better uptime. Plans begin at $24.95 a month with 25GB of disk space, 250GB of bandwidth, and unlimited accounts.

Reseller plans may include free WHM, eNom/Tucows registrar, ClientExec, RVSkin, and Fantastico.

Those talks grew and grew over the months until we realized we are already aligned so we made it official. All of our companies are already very profitable, and very reputable. In this agreement Kiet will remain on in his same executive level and power, with a new title. Thats as far as the changes go, we have zero plans to move, alter, or upset clients in any fashion.

We do have some awesome benefits for all the companies under our corp umbrella though. Lets go over how some of these are already being deployed and which ones are coming and how far out they are. Me, Kiet, Dylan, Les, Masood, Vlad, and other key members of HostingZoom/ResellerZoom/ModVPS have been laying out plans and discussing client needs and the main wish list. The even better news is we don’t plan to pick one, instead we have the unique opportunity to do them all. Thanks to these companies being profitable we have no need or desire to upset any flow thats working well.

Personnel
There are some great and talented people behind the entire staff here and we plan to keep them all. In fact since August this year Landis Holdings has been hiring new staff at an incredible rate. The technical staff alone has grown almost 40% and we aren’t done adding to that yet. We have some big plans to offer incredible support features and options. We have also increased our development staff to help bring in some of the much anticipated requests of the clients from the forums and emails.

Operations
We do not plan to make any change in the flow of operations on any level that could negatively impact clients. Let me make it clear, there doesn’t need to be server migrations and data transfers, nothing will be shut off or stopped. All companies already operate smoothly and profitable, we do not wish to upset any of them in any way by imposing the policies of one over the other. Each has in place its own chain of command, staff, servers, and colo. There are some things we see people wanting though that we can now instantly provide over the next week, month, and I’m confident all before years end.

Bullet Breakdown

And to prove this all isn’t just talk, everything I just mentioned has already begun. Kiet and other independent parties and staff will concur, we are in here to put some polish on the place. Point by point:
- We already have hired several new workers and are agressively working to complete development improvements to scripts and features clients have been requesting
- We have already placed a massive order for the largest shipment of servers in all HostingZoom history. Brought in to load balance, offer new services, complete all backup promises within the next 30 days, offer additional vps and reseller options, and more.
- All new servers are equipped with 4gb to 16gb ram, RAID-10, and many extras to be stored in our onsite offices.
- R1soft licenses are ready and awaiting the arrival of our equipment to engage all backups right now
- Me and several others have been actively engaged with the forum community already.
- Kiet, myself, other members of management and all the HZ staff are now and will continue to always actively be engaged with the clients and operations.

Im posting my email for anyone that needs to reach me, Greg@hostingzoom.com . Most of you already know Kiets, Kiet@hostingzoom.com and we both welcome any comments you have to offer.

Thanks, Im looking forward to meeting you all in the forums.