At MVI Hosting, we believe that a tier-1, carrier-neutral network is not the only thing needed to provide a high-speed and reliable shared hosting environment. There should also be a proper server structure in place to allow for fail-overs and load-balancing. Unfortunately, most shared web-hosting environments today are these cheap, one server does it all solutions which we wouldn't really call a solution at all. Hosting a dynamic, database-driven website with full email capabilities requires more horsepower and robustness than a single server can handle. Hosting on one server alone means that the one server has to handle DNS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Spam Filtering, HTTP, FTP and SQL combined! That means that if any one of these services gets over-worked, then all other ones suffer. That's why at MVI Hosting, our shared hosting accounts are housed on a multi-server system to provide the best possible speeds and reliability. MVI Hosting has come up with a server infrastructure which allows for maximum reliability while still being affordable. Below is a diagram of our server infrastructure.