Tier 3 Introduces The Farm
Easy-to-Use On-Demand Web Hosting Platform Increases Scalability and Reduces Downtime
SEATTLE, Wa. – April 22, 2010 – Tier 3, a leader in the delivery of managed services and on-demand infrastructure solutions, today announced The Farm, a scalable web-hosting platform that enables customers to quickly and securely deploy their websites on demand, without having to worry about downtime or performance issues.
The Farm is based on the Tier 3’s patent-pending Auto Scale technology. Auto Scale can automatically scale web applications to hundreds of virtual servers, enabling customers to increase or decrease their websites’ resources on demand in a secure environment, without having to worry about cost or over provisioning. With this capability, The Farm automatically enables your site on a secure computing platform with technologies such as CDN and Load Balancing. As a result, customers can deploy web applications easily and cost effectively, in minutes instead of hours.
“Developers, ad agencies, ecommerce providers, and small businesses need to be up and running quickly, with the ability to handle traffic in order to realize revenue. The Farm is a cost-effective way to manage this,” said Jared Wray, CEO of Tier 3. “By providing a high-performance, robust enterprise platform that is truly scalable and easy to use, customers can continue to manage their businesses without the hassle or costs involved with other Web-hosting platforms.”
The FWA (Favorite Website Awards) recognizes the best in cutting-edge website design. The FWA currently accommodates 3.6 million site visits and almost 100 million hits on a monthly basis. In order to support its growth plans to eventually reach five million site visits per month, founder and owner Rob Ford needed a reliable hosting solution that could scale without compromising uptime.
“The Farm is a powerful and reliable hosting service that I have come to depend upon to execute on the FWA’s growth plan,” said Ford. “It gives me a solid backbone for my business, which has grown year over year – even through the latest recession.”
Prior to becoming a Tier 3 customer in 2004, the FWA experienced hosting issues that included a lot of down time and poor technical support.
“Tier 3’s technical knowledge and experience working with some of the biggest brands in the world are evident in the amazing uptime I experience and the swift manner in which my rare requests for technical support are resolved,” continued Ford. “I am so glad I switched my hosting to Tier 3’s The Farm. It is a decision I have never regretted.”
So far, Tier 3 customers that have deployed The Farm have at least doubled the performance of their websites. Tier 3 has worked with enterprise technologies from companies such as NetApp, VMware, Cisco and Limelight to deliver this superior offering.
Additional features of The Farm include:
- Clustered database layer
- Support for PHP, and .NET
- Applications such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magento!
- HIPAA, PCI, and SAS 70 Type II Compliant.
- Instant Content Delivery Network with no code changes
- Enterprise bandwidth at a lower cost
- Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and MySQL 5
The Farm is available at a starting price of $131 US per month. To purchase the farm, customers can visit www.Tier3.com to sign up. A free, 30-day trial is also available.
About Tier 3
Tier 3 serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments by providing enterprise-level managed services and on-demand infrastructure solutions to global organizations spanning a variety of industries. By extending their network to Tier 3 facilities, companies can focus on their core business while speeding time to market, improving quality, and reducing cost. With its unmatched architecture and platform, Tier 3 is changing the way organizations view their information technology investments, delivering infrastructure solutions that are critical assets to the companies they serve.
Tier 3 is recognized as a leader in the managed services and virtualization market by VMware and other consulting firms.
Founded in 2000, Tier 3 is headquartered in Seattle, WA, with datacenters located in Seattle and Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit www.tier3.com , or email sales@tier3.com.
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