Server Farm

A Server Farm is a group of computers acting as server and housed together in a single location. A server farm is sometimes called a server cluster.

A Web Server Farm is either (1) a Web site that has more than one server, or (2) an Internet service provider (ISP) that provides Web hosting services using multiple servers.

In a Business Network, a server farm or cluster might perform such services as providing centralized access control, file access, printer sharing, and backup for workstation users. The servers may have individual operating systems or a shared operating system and may also be set up to provide load balancing when there are many server requests. In a server farm, if one server fails, another can act as backup.

Net56 has combined servers and processing power into a single entity producing a powerful, efficient and cost effective solution for you. Whether you need to handle an enormous amount of computerization of tasks and services or you need a reliable and secure method of hosting your web site, Net56 has the solution.

Our server farm housed in Palatine, Illinois streamlines your internal processes by distributing the workload between the individual components of the farm and expedites computing processes by harnessing the power of multiple servers. The farms rely on load-balancing software that accomplishes such tasks as tracking demand for processing power from different machines, prioritizing the tasks and scheduling and rescheduling them depending on priority and demand that users put on the network. When one server in the farm fails, another can step in as a backup.