Grid vs. Shared Hosting
How is the ElasticLive System different than Shared Hosting?
The fundamental architecture of Shared Hosting systems rely on placing many clients on a single piece of shared server hardware. Clients hosted on these shared platforms have become accustomed to inconsistent performance commonly known as the "bad neighbor effect". If other clients sharing your sever begin experiencing large surges of traffic or take other actions to increase the load of the server everyone hosted on that machine instantly experiences degrading performance as the single server becomes overloaded with requests.

The distributed nature of the ElasticLive Grid Server eliminates the "bad neighbor effect" by dynamically spreading increases in load among several severs at once. You'll never outgrow the ElasticLive Grid Server because new hardware can be added at anytime to increase hosting capacity.

Downtime resulting from lack of redundancy is another common pitfall in shared hosting environments. If the single server where your sites are located experiences a hardware or software failure downtime is inevitable.

The ElasticLive Grid Server has been designed to withstand numerous hardware and software failures without impacting any aspect of your online operations. When a piece of hardware or software fails on a Grid node the other identically configured nodes instantly pick up the workload and continue serving your sites without interruption. This same level of redundancy extends beyond the Grid to include the network running the Grid and power supplied to the data center housing the Grid. Whenever a software, hardware, network or power problem arises you won’t notice a thing because we engineered and continuously test redundancy at all levels of our hosting operations.