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Zero-Downtime Network™

The Rackspace network has been engineered from the ground up to accommodate the high-availability demands of our customers' mission-critical Web applications. Our Cisco-powered, Zero-Downtime Network™ with unique self-healing attributes is based on multiple bandwidth providers and BGP4 (Border Gateway Protocol) for best case routing. This ensures the data reaches the end user in the fastest, most efficient manner possible. This allows us to deliver on our 100% infrastructure availability guarantee.

Rackspace provides a fully resilient and redundant network infrastructure. Our entirely switched network employs Cisco chassis based switches running HSRP (N+1 hot failover) to ensure that data can be routed even in the event of device or link failure.

Guaranteed Packet Delivery

Our providers are paid to make sure that packets of information are delivered quickly and efficiently to your end users. This offers significant advantages over simply peering with the major backbones. Peering agreements rarely include Service Level Agreements (SLAs) so no one is accountable for lost packets at congested exchange points. Because Rackspace has SLAs with all of our network partners, we are able to guarantee that all packets will leave our network at full speed.

Bandwidth Utilisation

Rackspace's substantial bandwidth capacity allows us to accommodate even the largest spikes in traffic. To ensure rapid delivery of content, we continuously add network connectivity and new routes. Low bandwidth utilisation allows for maximum uptime and ensures our customers never experience network degradation, even if multiple transit partners experience simultaneous outages.

Network Providers

Rackspace doesn’t rely on any single connectivity provider. Instead, we employ a multi-provider strategy. This creates natural redundancy in our network architecture and ensures that packets can leave our network from multiple points. Additionally, if one or more provider experiences congestion or downtime, traffic can be rerouted through other network partners until the issue is solved. We work closely with leading telecommunications providers to build and maintain our world-class Tier 1 network with a total of 6 Gbps bandwidth.

The Rackspace Tier 1 network has significant advantages over Tier 2 providers, whose network is likely to suffer from more latency and packet loss which will affect the speed of your web site, which in turn could affect your business. With Rackspace you get a Tier 1 network, this guarantees you your own dedicated connection, zero contention ratio, no packet loss and no downtime. When speaking to other hosting companies, ask if they can give you the same promises.

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Webgains has partnered with the W3 Alliance (W3A) to help you boost your affiliate earnings. The W3 Alliance is a partnership between the UK’s most successful privately owned affiliate price comparison sites and a specialist linking consultancy.

There are many challenges in building a successful affiliate publishing business. The W3A solution addresses them head-on and is suited to non-technical and technical affiliates alike with support provided throughout the process. You choose a subject area that interests you and W3A delivers a categorised site (hosted and owned by you) which is already optimised for the search engines and which contains relevant product information via Webgains. Each site has a built-in content editor, allowing to you add unique and relevant content which is essential to achieving decent rankings in the search engines. You can even elect to add this content to your own RSS channel. It also includes a sophisticated but easy-to-use linking system allowing you to trade relevant links with other websites, also vital for rankings. As traffic grows, you keep all of the affiliate commissions which come to you directly from Webgains through your account. There is no charge for joining the programme. All that W3A asks in return is that once your site is established, they are able to add some additional content units which will include some relevant search engine-friendly advertising.

To find out more about the w3alliance, click here.

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is the trade association for online advertising. With over 380 members, it's run for the leading media owners and agencies in the UK internet industry. Online is an exciting and fast-growing medium and the job of the IAB is to work with members to ensure marketers can identify the best role for online, helping them engage their customers and build their brands. Through the dissemination of research and the organisation of regular events, they aim to put online on the agenda of every marketer in the UK, acting as an authoritative and objective source for all internet advertising issues whilst promoting industry-wide best practice.

The IAB champion affiliate marketing by running the Affiliate Marketing Council (AMC) monthly and have produced a handbook.