Ecommerce Hosting

Nexternal Solutions provides web-based e-commerce software to businesses serious about online sales. Put simply, Nexternal hosts the ecommerce application on its servers alleviating the merchant from having to contend with issues such as daily data backups, equipment redundancy, security, and software patches. Nexternal's shopping cart software acts as an extension to the merchant's web site and allows them to continue to host with their existing hosting provider. For merchants that do not have a current web hosting provider, Nexternal recommends the following company for reliable, easy to setup, basic web site hosting:

Nexternal hosts is e-commerce application at an Internet Data Center owned by Sungard. Nexternal has a 100% uptime service level agreement with Sungard. Sungard is able to provide this guarantee because of their multiple backbone internet connections. Should latency problems exist, all traffic can be diverted to the other internet backbones. Sungard also has an enormous onsite generator (bigger than many buildings) that can provide power in the event of an outage. The Data Center is staffed and monitored 24/7 with trained personnel.

Nexternal's e-commerce hosting environment consists of a multi-tier server infrastructure to ensure uptime. Using load balancing software, traffic is first distributed evenly across the application server layer. Should an application server fail, the load balancing software will direct traffic to the other application servers. Nexternal also uses a separate file server and database servers layers which are designed specifically for their tasks. This type of environment is infinitely scalable and provides Nexternal's clients with the reliability that is critical in an ecommerce hosting environment.