Gate has been hosting mission critical web sites since the dawn of the World Wide Web itself, and has been improving upon the concept ever since. They were the first major hosting company to implement clustering technology across all of their hosting accounts, and they remain the only major hosting company to continue to provide this technology at affordable prices.
In the traditional hosting environment, a single server "hosts" many web sites, often several thousand. While this model is quite cost effective for the provider, it has some major drawbacks for the customer, namely reliability and performance. If you happen to be on a server that experiences a hardware failure (and when a server is churning out data 24x7, they happen more frequently than you might imagine), your site is down until that machine is repaired (assuming someone noticed the failure to begin with). It doesn't take a failure to bring your site down either; it only takes one or two active web sites to monopolize the resources of a server and bring the other thousands of sites to a crawl, unless the web sites in question are hosted at Gate.com.
Gate websites are hosted by an entire array of servers. If a server experiences a hardware failure, the other servers in the array automatically pick up the slack, therefore, your web site continues to function... and the failure goes completely unnoticed (except by their team of engineers, who are monitoring all systems 24x7). The server cluster also means more resources are on tap when you need them and faster response time for all visitors to your web site, all the time.
The power of Gate's hosting architecture also extends beyond the server to the application layer. Their platform is continually updated to support the latest in hosting technologies such as the ASP.Net framework, new versions of PHP, and literally dozens of other developer tools and compilers. Gate's diligence allows you to build or install the latest web modules and applications with confidence.
Network Infrastructure:
The key to a stable high performance network is that there is no key. No one thing makes a network robust, it's a combination of many factors: capacity, peering, DDoS mitigation, WAN redundancy, LAN redundancy, network topology, and high performance network hardware, just to name a few.
Gate.com operates one of the largest high performance networks in existence. They own several class B IP blocks and have several of their own antonymous system numbers (few hosting providers do) which gives us direct control over peering and traffic engineering. Their network pumps out nearly two gigabits of sustained traffic each and every second, and serves an estimated 5% of all commercial web pages.
Facilities:
Gate’s facility has been designed around a single objective: to protect your data. We think of their data centers as the Fort Knox of web hosting. Each has multiple layers of defense against a variety of threats: fire, flood, power failure, physical intrusion - you name it, they’re prepared.
Customer Support:
Team Work
They’re extreme support team is staffed around the clock to quickly and efficiently solve your problems. We have developed a thorough selection, training and continual real-time monitoring processes to ensure your issues are solved in a timely manner.
Deep Knowledge
Knowledge is the key.
Unsurpassed knowledge and understanding of the web hosting and Internet services industry differentiates Gate from the competition. Their agents receive the most comprehensive dynamic training in the industry. They’re agents take pride in their knowledge and in helping you succeed.
Action
Gate has the need for speed.
When you call Gate, they’re there, ready to take action. Gate support center agents are available to answer your call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (even during peak call times). They respond to email inquiries within 12 hours, and often faster. Whenever necessary, they escalate issues within our team of administrators, developers and executive management to find you a solution as quickly as possible.
