If you’re concerned about your website’s availability – pay attention to this. Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet, is offering up a redundant service technology for its pro-level packages and the price is going to shock you (in a good way).

With a backup server in a different location, websites hosted at 1&1 are guaranteed to have maximum availability of 99.99%. All data and applications are mirrored so websites are more dependable than ever before. For this advancement, 1&1 has improved its Web hosting portfolio and is introducing new and innovative 1&1 Dual Hosting packages. Prices start at $2.99 with an upfront, 3-year billing term. The 1&1 Dual Basic package contains 10 GB webspace, 1 domain, 250 e-mail accounts and 10 MySQL database (1 GB each).

"The 1&1 Dual Hosting concept means a new dimension of reliability because every online presence is managed in two different locations in our high performance data center at the same time", says Oliver Mauss, CEO of 1&1 Internet Inc. "Developers, self-employed individuals, and medium-sized businesses can benefit from a professional safeguard that until now only large corporations could afford."