PBworks Technology
PBworks has built its technology from scratch to serve its millions of users efficiently and effectively.
Scalability
Integrating workspaces, document management, project management, and/or social networking into your collaboration strategy can bring many benefits, but if the technology can't scale, this can result in many headaches as well. As the various departments and groups within your enterprise weave collaboration into their daily activities, the amount of traffic and data generated can balloon rapidly. Rather than worrying about server performance, and adding additional boxes as your implementation scales, PBworks' hosted solutions provide seamless, proven scalability.
In addition to the scalability of an organization's particular collaboration network, each PBworks client also benefits from our overall scale. Our customer base, the largest of any hosted collaboration provider, provides high-quality customer feedback that drives product innovation. A large customer base also creates the opportunity for members of the user community to collaborate and share best practices.
PBworks has proven its ability to scale, with the largest customer base and the best track record of service reliability. PBworks supports:
- 900,000+ hosted workspaces
- More than three times as many pages and files than Wikipedia
- Over 3 million active users
- Over 50,000 businesses
Performance and Reliability
Other critical factors to consider are performance and reliability. Adopting collaboration technology to improve the productivity of your enterprise will prove fruitless if poor application performance offsets those gains. While on-demand vendors have to contend with the vagaries of the Internet, their ability to focus and devote more resources to performance and reliability generally allows them to deliver better performance than any reasonably-priced in-house solution.
PBworks has a long track record of superior performance, with page load times worldwide averaging less than 1.5 seconds. And by building in redundancy such as multiple Tier-1 backbone providers, PBworks delivers 99.9% uptime to its many clients.
Disaster Recovery
Given the importance of the information contained in your collaboration network, disaster recovery is essential, especially when your workspaces are a source of important operational data and procedures. Disaster recovery is an area where on-demand providers shine, since they can amortize their investment across numerous customers.
For example, PBworks offers highly redundant data storage. Every single page edit that takes place is copied to three separate servers to provide extreme redundancy. In addition, all data is backed up with encrypted offsite storage, which allows full disaster recovery even in the event of a complete failure of the main production facility. PBworks users may also schedule their own backups so that they can meet their standard corporate data backup policies.