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Clustered Hosting Makes Myspacetoolbox.com's Web Site "Blazing Fast"

Myspacetoolbox.com (not affiliated with MySpace.com) supports the users of MySpace who want to customize their online portfolios. The top destination for MySpace Utilities, the toolbox allows users to upload photos, videos, music or whatever they'd like to enhance their online presence at MySpace. Myspacetoolbox supports users in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from its offices in Southern California.

The Challenge: Provide a fast, reliable, affordable hosting solution to handle a high volume of traffic that was bringing dedicated servers to their knees and crashing the site on a regular basis.

The Solution: Myspacetoolbox chose Concentric's Clustered Web Hosting solution in January of 2006, and has never looked back. With Concentric's unique Clustered Hosting technology comprised of fault-tolerant, load-sharing server clusters, the Concentric hosting platform has provided top performance even at the height of peak hours of use. In fact, because of caching, the more usage a site gets, the more efficient Clustered Hosting becomes in serving the site.

"When I was having trouble with my web site, I started looking around on the Internet for another solution. I did a Google search on ‘clustered hosting’ and found Concentric. Switching my site to Concentric’s clustered hosting has made the site ‘blazing fast,’" says the owner and Webmaster of Myspacetoolbox. "The site grew incredibly fast and even the dedicated servers and enterprise accounts I was on couldn’t handle the high volume of traffic I was getting every day. The site was crashing all of the time and was especially vulnerable during peak hours of use. That’s never been a problem since switching over to the clustered hosting Concentric provides. And the price was right as well," he continued.

Concentric's Clustered Hosting solution ensures that Web servers are available to handle huge spikes in traffic and processing demands from sites such as Myspacetoolbox.com. Accounts are not resident on any single server; they share the computing power of the cluster, so resources are virtually limitless. Protection isn't an issue either since firewall protection and access control are natively integrated into the platform-accounts are isolated from each other, so service and data are safe. And, as Myspacetoolbox.com found, pricing is a fraction of the cost of dedicated solutions.

 

Testimonials

Sixfeet.com
Stephen H

"Concentric hosting prices have gone down recently and that usually means cutting corners and services, but they are always getting better, whether it's changes on the web site or offering new web mail features and web developing tools. I set-up a "web disk" using Concentric's new "Net Drive" in a matter of minutes, so I don't have to email files between my home and the office. The Netdrive service is better than a little USB drive. I've been a customer for years and I plan on staying with Concentric."

linkwitzlab.com
Siegfried L

"At my previous provider, my site was using more traffic than its allocation and I was being forced to upgrade into a higher-price plan. With Concentric, I can add as much traffic as I need and that works out really well. I find the Concentric Center site really easy to use."

Edeadshop.com
Peter

"Concentric customer service is outstanding, especially during the critical times like the first few days when I was switching my hosting from another company. The customer care techs were quick, knowledgeable and helpful and they answered the phone in about 2 minutes. Since my initial set up I haven't had to call very often but when I do, the support team knows their system inside and out."

Laura A
Salesnowconsultants.com

Sales Now! Is a consulting group dedicated to assisting sales executives. They have special expertise in selling technology products and large consulting engagements. One key area of their service is critiquing business websites from the standpoint of the target audience and determining if messaging and functionality of the web site is appropriate, this often leads to creating web sites.

"I need a hosting provider that speaks to me as a professional. The service I get with Concentric is very extensive, such as the amount of storage in my hosting plan and the information available to help me run my business successfully online. The service overall is more predictable, reliable and easy to use than a consumer oriented provider. For example, in one week I was able to research requirements I had for a customer, build a web site using PHP to support an online questionnaire and integrate a mySQL database on the backend to gather and manipulate the data. With other hosting providers, this job would have been more complicated and time consuming. Concentric has everything I need!"

The Ice Cream Guy
http://www.theicecreamguy.com

"I'm one of those ' high maintenance ' customers/clients that has been with Concentric for some time. I can always count on finding someone at Concentric to walk me through an issue. They've hired a whole bunch of technically savvy people who listen, then proceed to pick out the solutions by having me try this or that while I'm on the phone with them. This is rare and given my level of computer sophistication, I'm very happy to be with Concentric."

Firstblueangel.com
Hank N

First Blue Angel is an online, charitable organization whose primary goal is to get the story of Roy "Butch" Voris into the hands of as many people as possible. The web site, firstblueangel.com, is run by the immediate family of Butch and they donate all net proceeds for items sold from the web site to the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation and Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society.

"Firstblueangel.com has been a great success in regards to generating interest in our charity efforts and raising money by selling books and other items online", states Hank Nothhaft, site creator and Butch's son-in-law. "The creation of the site using Concentric's Web Builder went very smoothly and overall, the service is very easy to use. The integration of PayPal with Web Builder allows customers to easily buy items on our site, helping us raise money for important causes. I am so pleased with Concentric's hosting service that I have just renewed our service for another two years!"

Justamomentphoto.com
Donn D

Just A Moment Photo is a personal and commercial photography business. Their web site, justamomentphoto.com, is the central point for potential customers to view sample photos and learn about the variety of digital and artistic services they offer.

"My experience with Concentric has been great, the hosting and email service is totally reliable and trouble-free. I know customers can view my work when they need to. The mail service in particular is faster than some of the 'big' name providers and I've never had a mail delay. This is a big benefit when communicating with my customers."