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Scale & sustain

Downtime is the problem. High availability is the answer.

When a system going down isn't acceptable, high availability is the fix, and HAMS is our product line of turnkey solutions for delivering it. We build redundancy and load balancing into your databases, web traffic, containers, storage, and in-memory data, then run it all for you, so a failed server or a maintenance window never turns into an outage.

Sounds like "Things keep going down. We need them not to."
High Availability & Reliability
What it looks like

You might recognize one of these.

Nobody goes looking for high availability on a good day. It usually comes up right after an outage, or right before one you can't afford.

An outage costs real money Every minute down means lost revenue, missed SLAs, or customers who don't come back.
You can't take a maintenance window Patching or upgrading means downtime, so it keeps getting put off, and the risk quietly piles up.
One server is a single point of failure If the wrong box dies, everything goes with it, and everyone already knows which box that is.
Growth outran the setup What was fine for a handful of users now buckles under load, with no headroom to spare.
You owe someone uptime A contract, a regulator, or a customer expects you to stay up, and an outage means penalties, not just apologies.
Why it's hard

High availability is hard to build and keep.

Staying online through a failure isn't one setting you switch on. It's a stack of moving parts, databases, load balancers, storage, networking, that all have to fail over correctly, and keep doing it as things change.

01

It's more than one layer

Real HA means the database, the web tier, storage, and the network all stay up together. A gap in any one of them takes the rest down with it.

02

Failover has to actually work

It's easy to set up redundancy that looks right on paper but doesn't fail over cleanly under real conditions. The only proof is testing it.

03

It has to keep working

Systems drift, versions change, capacity shifts. HA that was solid last quarter quietly rots unless someone owns keeping it healthy.

What HAMS covers optional section

Every layer, built to stay up.

HAMS is a product line of turnkey solutions. We combine the layers your infrastructure needs, each fully managed for you.

HAMS DB → Always-on databases

MySQL and MariaDB with Galera clustering, ProxySQL routing, and automatic failover, so a lost node never means a lost database.

HAMS WS → Web traffic that never drops

HAProxy, IPVS, and Keepalived send users to healthy servers automatically, even during a failure or planned maintenance.

HAMS K8S → Resilient containers

Kubernetes that scales, self-heals, and fails over across nodes without hands-on babysitting.

HAMS NFS → Fault-tolerant storage

Shared storage that stays available and in sync across clustered nodes, so applications never lose access to their data.

HAMS IMDB → Real-time in-memory data

A microsecond-fast in-memory layer for real-time analytics, caching, and session management.

See HAMS managed services
How we deliver it

Designed, built, and managed for you.

Every HAMS solution is turnkey. You don't have to become an HA expert, we handle it end to end.

  1. 01

    Understand your systems

    We learn how your infrastructure works and which parts can't go down, then agree on uptime targets and escalation paths.

  2. 02

    Design & build your HAMS stack

    We assemble the right layers, databases, web, storage, containers, and build in the redundancy, load balancing, and monitoring.

  3. 03

    Deploy & validate

    We put it into production and confirm failover works exactly as designed, no guessing, then settle on maintenance windows that work for you.

  4. 04

    Manage & maintain

    We monitor, patch, and maintain the whole stack, run periodic failover checks, and keep it aligned as you grow.

What you walk away with

Systems that stay up.

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No single point of failure One server can die and your systems keep running.
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Maintenance without downtime Patch, upgrade, and maintain during business hours, no outage window required.
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Uptime you can commit to The redundancy and load balancing to stand behind the SLAs you owe customers and regulators.
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A team that owns it We run the whole HA stack, so your people don't have to.

We've done this work

All success stories
Success Story

Keeping engineers building. Not debugging their environment.

How Efficient Computer Company turned engineering infrastructure from a daily distraction into the platform their team actually builds on.

Efficient Computer Company Engineering
Success Story

Not a vendor. An extension of the team.

How Unite Communications got the specialized infrastructure expertise of a full IT team, for less than the cost of a single in-house hire.

Unite Communications Telecom & Communications

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