High Availability, one of the more powerful buzzwords. But what exactly does it mean? Most people know that it is a Good Thing, however they often don't know how to get there. And more importantly, when is something too highly available? Is there such a thing? Most companies are excited and want 100% uptime, until they realize the amazing cost, management and complexity this can introduce to a system.

All of these are valid concerns, and can be easily answered with a quick analysis of your current and future systems plans. High Availability, or 99.99----% uptime, while expensive, can help insure a certain quality of service to your customers, as well as employees that visit your company's website, or internet application. The terms load balancing, redundancy, and speed are all synonymous with the words UPTIME in the scheme of High Availability. Engineered solutions to provide speed under high server duress are almost a necessity for any small or large scale internet application that needs to be visible on the web 24/7.

to engineer your Highly Available solutions. We have been doing this since before it was even a buzzword. Back before it was still a glimmer in E-Commerce's eye. The beginning of Nu Tech's experience was dealing with Automotive part tracking . The line must keep moving, and having a hold up was and still is unacceptable. After the Internet started going to dynamic and database driven content, Nu Tech was quickly able to apply the same concepts to beginning dot coms. Nu Tech prides itself on not over-engineering highly available solutions, something which is quite common. After all, if your uptime goal is only %99.999, why spend the thousands extra with the added complexity? Of course, what would highly available solutions be without monitoring of said solution? They go hand in hand and often are integrated.