Hosting for High Traffic Sites

If your website or online business has a small but loyal following, your hosting options are fairly clear and straightforward. However, if your site is among the growing number of websites that rely on significant traffic flows to generate revenue, the process of selecting and implementing the best hosting configuration can be more complex. Here at Jupiter Hosting, we have worked with clients at every point along the traffic spectrum, but we specialize in devising hosting configurations that are geared toward the unique needs of sites with high traffic.

Many of our clients operate sites whose daily hit counts number in the millions. In fact, we’ve built our professional reputation on our ability to pull off engineering feats that exceed our clients’ in-house capabilities. We count among our clients some of the most highly-trafficked commercial sites online today, and we pride ourselves on our ability to cut through the complexity and demystify the process of building the kind of large-scale infrastructures that are needed to effectively host websites that receive a great deal of traffic.

 

 

Crafting Custom Solutions to Withstand High Traffic

In order to ensure that a website can handle a significant level of traffic consistently, efficiently, and effectively, it’s crucial to devise a unique hosting solution that makes use of the most advanced technological concepts, including high-performance computing and server clustering.

When developing a hosting configuration for busy websites, the Jupiter Hosting team first undertakes a rigorous review process to identify and understand the full extent of the site’s traffic patterns. We look at factors such as:

  • Is the site static, or database-driven?
  • Does database activity result from direct, page-to-page database calls, or is a content management system in place?
  • Does the site rely on large binary files such as images or video-based content?
  • What is the level of input/output usage on the site’s file system and buses?
  • Is the site’s content protected, and if so, what is the protection mechanism?
  • Are the chief drivers behind the site’s traffic organic, affiliate, or search engine-based?
  • What are the low- and high-end values for the site’s traffic?
  • How can the site be optimized for scalability and performance engineering?
  • What are the mission-critical features and components of the site?
  • How can we incorporate redundancy and data resilience into the hosting design to best protect and support these mission-critical features?
  • What are the government, regulatory, and compliance requirements for the site?
  • How can we design a hosting environment that will help the site meet or exceed all applicable regulatory standards?
  • What are the site’s bandwidth requirements?
  • What is the best way to protect the security and integrity of the site?

Based on the information we gather during the review process, we develop a design that reflects each high-traffic site’s unique needs. Our objective is to make sure that your site will always be able to achieve optimal performance, even under the heaviest traffic conditions. We know that your online business won’t succeed if your site’s functionality isn’t up to speed, and we specialize in creating the kind of custom hosting infrastructures that will deliver time and time again, even under duress.