Multi-Tiered Web Application w/ a Database Backend
The Planet gives customers the flexibility to build hosted configurations that can scale as their hardware needs grow. Rapid provisioning of your IT infrastructure ensures that hardware can be added quickly to keep pace with your business. Whether you choose to manage your own Dedicated Servers solutions or prefer to have us help you select the ideal IT infrastructure and manage it for you through Northstar Managed Hosting, The Planet can put together the best IT environment with the scalability to grow with your business.
This sample configuration highlights the ability to easily scale your infrastructure to match the needs of your business.
Best Practice Based Security
To ensure the appropriate level of security, each hosted configuration begins with a hardware firewall powered by Cisco Systems. Northstar Managed Hosting can provide an additional level of security by adding a fully managed intrusion detection system powered by Alert Logic.
Multi-tiered Hardware Model
The servers in this configuration begin with a recommended separation of the Web server(s) from the database(s) for better performance and future scalability. Over time, there is additional capacity to add more Web or database servers based on your needs or through proactive recommendations from your Northstar assigned team of engineers. As your Web application begins to scale across multiple Web servers, fully managed load balancers can be added to the environment.
High Performance Managed Backup
Dedicated Server configurations have the option to connect to disk-to-disk based backup systems for faster access times and greater data throughput for reduced backup and restore times. You also have the option to offload the backup process to our backup specialists. Under Northstar Managed Hosting, we take it a step further by including a dedicated backup network for every configuration and we fully manage the entire backup and restore process for your environment.
Talk to one of our sales specialists to customize the hardware and management options of this solution for your needs.