Farmington E-Business Consultancy Acsys Announces New Web Farm Service

Acsys today introduced a new Web Farm service that helps improve the availability, uptime and performance of their Web sites, intranets, and extranets.  The new service helps organizations improve the performance and reliability of their mission-critical applications, such as corporate Web sites, e-commerce stores, and employee intranets.

Unlike conventional hosting services, which rely on a single server, the Acsys Web Farm service utilizes multiple servers and automatically routes traffic to each server via a Web switch.  The use of multiple servers increases site performance by reducing the amount of traffic, resulting in faster load times and the ability to accommodate a greater number of concurrent users.  The use of multiple servers also prevents site outages because users are automatically routed to an active server when another server goes down. The servers utilized by the Acsys Web Farm service can each handle up to 8 million concurrent users, virtually eliminating the possibility of site outages and ensuring strong site performance.

"Web sites are increasingly the lifeblood of many businesses," said Acsys president Stan Valencis. "When they go down, revenues are lost, relationships are compromised, and tangible costs are incurred,"  said Valencis. "We created the Acsys Web Farm service to help organizations avoid those problems by ensuring that their mission-critical Web sites, intranets, extranets, and e-commerce infrastructures are consistently available and functioning at optimal performance levels. Our solution also provides virtually unlimited scalability, so infrastructure can be easily expand to accommodate future growth."

Image-rich sites, such as those containing a large amount of visual product information, realize the greater performance improvement when moving from a single server to a Web Farm.  The Acsys Web Farm solution provides content-aware cache switching, which allows site images and applications to split onto different servers, reducing load times and improving user experience, especially during peak traffic periods.