PBwiki Technology

PBwiki has built its technology from scratch to serve its millions of users efficiently and effectively.

Scalability

Integrating wiki technology into knowledge management and collaboration 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 wikis 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, PBwiki's hosted solutions provide seamless, proven scalability.

In addition to the scalability of an organization's particular wiki, each PBwiki client also benefits from PBwiki's overall scale.  PBwiki's customer base, the largest of any on-demand host of business wikis, 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.

PBwiki has proven its ability to scale, with the largest customer base and the best track record of service reliability.  PBwiki supports:

• 600,000+ hosted wikis
• More wiki pages than the English language version of the Wikipedia
• 2.2 million people each month visit a PBwiki hosted wiki
• PBwiki handles 1,800 wiki edits per hour

Performance and Reliability

Other critical factors to consider are performance and reliability.  Adopting wiki 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.

PBwiki 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, PBwiki delivers 99.9% uptime to its many clients.

Disaster Recovery

Given the importance of the information contained in enterprise wikis, disaster recovery is essential, especially when the wiki is itself 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, PBwiki 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.  PBwiki users may also schedule their own backups so that they can meet their standard corporate data backup policies.