October 20, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Modwest (modwest.com) announced on Tuesday that it has completed its migration to a new modular hardware architecture based on blade servers and storage area network technology.
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The company said the new architecture enhances availability and improves performance, scalability and ease of management.
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“For our load-balanced cluster of Web hosting servers, the SAN and blade solution was a perfect fit from a staffing and equipment scalability perspective, ” says Allen Lee, vice president of technology and co-founder of Modwest.
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The migration from older standalone servers to the new architecture began in March 2004. It was completed with “virtually no service interruptions,” the company said.
