EIRCA Internet Solutions (http://www.eirca.net), a leading provider of cpanel based reseller web hosting, announced today that it had officially introduced its failsafe clustering service named "Anti-Fail System" (AFS), a service that provides maximum uptime and redundancy for its reseller hosting clients.

AFS was designed, tested and integrated in-house by the company's development team. Designed for the company's cPanel servers, AFS was tested by a core group of EIRCA resellers, all of whom spent a minimum of three months on the system in a live production environment. "AFS works seamlessly with our current service offerings," commented CTO, Dean Cahl, "and a major benefit to our customers is that the system remains anonymous, which was the number one requested feature by EIRCA resellers."

The company reports that it has simulated countless system failures in order to ensure that AFS correctly protects the multiple "Single Points of Failure" that exist in a typical shared hosting environment. "We're always looking for a technical edge," said Cahl of the Anti-Fail System "and with our uptime guarantee being one of the strongest in the hosting industry, we needed to make sure that our actual system uptime is 100%, as opposed to the 99.9% guaranteed with our Service Level Agreement". The only way to ensure that, according to Cahl, was to "design and develop a system that constantly monitors every Single Point of Failure, and should the need arise, have the system automatically [and instantly] invoke new hardware that carries mirrored data".

The company is the latest in a growing number of providers to introduce similar systems that have dominated the respective companies developmental work for 2006. "The industry is heading that way", explains Simon O'Rourke, CEO of EIRCA, "clustered and failsafe systems make the end user experience more enjoyable and stress-free, which makes the resellers job that much easier". Keen to point out that AFS is not a grid, O'Rourke comments that EIRCA's version of a hosting grid will not be seen until at least 2008, "A true grid system requires several additional hundred hours of development and testing, not to mention significant monetary investment and all of those aspects will slot in to place during 2007, enabling us to introduce our grid [currently un-named] in early to mid 2008," O'Rourke offers.