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BrightHost specialises in hosting high-profile brands and demanding applications under constant scrutiny. We understand that availability is critical, and security is paramount. We’ve partnered with leading suppliers and built robust infrastructure to ensure that some of Australia’s most recognisable brands can grow and succeed online.
Application Fault Tolerance
Application Load Balancers ensure continuous availability of an application by seamlessly distributing incoming visitors to the best performing web server. When a web server fails or goes offline for maintenance, load balancers send users on that server to the next available server in a farm.
- Ensures continuous application availability
- Provides hardware-assisted compression and caching
- SSL Offloading to increase security and application awareness
- Zero downtime from server failures or maintenance
DDoS Mitigation
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks involve the use of thousands of remote systems simultaneously requested website content. This type of attack is notorious for being extremely difficult to stop. There is often no way to determine legitimate visitors from malicious visitors and thus no way to block the attack.
We have extensive practical experience in employing techniques and technologies to protect critical applications and politically sensitive organisations from DDoS attacks.
Application Firewall
Intelligent devices watch and learn how an application behaves normally, so that they can instinctively block malicious users when they do something unexpected.
Penetration Testing
Complex systems will have flaws. Pen. Testing provides an opportunity to learn how to harden an application before releasing it into the wild.
Performance Testing
How many visitors can your website handle? Performance Testing provides a detailed report on where your site performs well, and where it can be improved under extreme load.
Database Isolation
Your database contains the critical and sensitive data. Isolation in a separate physical network provides a formidable layer of defence against intrusion.
SQL Mirroring
Database mirroring provides all of the advantages of clustered systems at a fraction of the cost. Maintenance can be performed without downtime and applications can scale easily.
Content Delivery and Acceleration
Despite advances in technology international websites are plagued by poor performance due to delays in intercontinental transmission. Content Delivery Networks ensure that your website is as fast and responsive to visitors on the other side of the world as it is to people in the same city where it is hosted. But this is just one of the benefits of Content Delivery Networks:
- Reduce costs by offloading traffic from the primary hosting site
- Streamlined disaster recovery and global load balancing services
- Increased conversions with faster page load speeds
- Flash crowds are more easily accommodated and at lower cost