The Internet is experiencing a constant proliferation of online business websites. Therefore, superior and quality web hosting services are increasingly becoming indispensable to these mission critical websites. This is because these hosting providers provide the primary point of contact for all their business transactions and any kind of laxity or poor performance on their end can result in loss of revenue and dampening of online credibility for the web-hosting clients. This could also cause detraction from the company's image, which could result in loss of customers.

Mission critical websites like online gaming and online betting websites function on extremely stringent requirements as all responses are guaranteed to be generated in real time.

These types of websites require higher or more superior levels of hosting and far surpass the basic requirements of just disk space or the simple provision of bandwidth. Other factors that need to be taken into consideration include the available power supply, component durability, as well as the ability of fan/s to disperse the heat generated by a server running 24/7 under very heavy loads. Even though the Internet is no longer in its nascent stages, there are still security issues that have to be dealt with from to time. Furthermore, given the mammoth scale of operations; an innovative approach is required in designing applications and hardware architectures to keep apace with the high-demanding websites.

The right approach therefore is to offer a horizontal scalability with a distributed architecture. Just by increasing bandwidth, speed and memory alone cannot achieve this goal. A distributed architecture can offer increased scalability and can handle faults and failures within the system. This model is in fact best suited for most online operations and services.

The task can be likened to division of labor in order to cope with huge workloads and thereby ensure smooth and consistent operations.
Hosting a distributed architecture is however a more complex procedure as compared to the traditional operations. The goal is to create a seamless whole and hardware setup and middleware software need to be designed much in the same way as a purpose-built building, and layers of middle management in the organization would be in place for a human organization. The applications are designed not to obstruct the environment and instead facilitate smooth online operations.

The world of Internet is constantly evolving and by understanding the inherent nature of its functions and tools, one can address various issues and concerns that are still rearing its heads.

Advanced web hosting is therefore the key smooth functioning of these mission critical websites. Advanced web hosting should be able to offer a fail-safe architecture, real time backups, geographically distributed resources (databases), applications designed for distributed architectures and much more.

Innovative technologies are constantly being developed in order to keep up with the demands of advanced web hosting. High-end web hosting solutions are therefore more expensive since it offers inherently modern models of applications to meet the growing demands of web hosting clients.