One of Many 

Formever® uses many servers, distributed among many secure locations, each linked to many companions, to make a self-reinforcing Swarm that work in concert to back each other up. When you sign up for the cloud service, your account is assigned to one of the Swarm Servers, with back up on assigned companions in the Swarm.

Robust and Reliable

The distributed nature of the Swarm makes it more reliable than having one or a few large, centralized servers. Each server in the Swarm, in addition to hosting its own set of accounts, mirrors some of its companion’s accounts, and each server is capable of reassembling the rest of the Swarm.

Hot Back-up

Every server’s companions keep an up-to-date image of each other’s accounts. This “hot back-up” system means that in the very rare event that a server goes down, its companions will recreate it and bring it back online in minutes.

Cold Back-up

If something should happen to a large block of servers simultaneously – an exceptionally rare event – then for any server without a current “hot back-up” the system will rebuild and recreate them from a “cold back-up”, which are copies kept on cloud storage services, bringing you back online in just a few more minutes. These "cold backups" are duplicated inside these cloud storage services on separate zones with isolated power and internet connections. In addition Formever provides further recovery assurance by duplicating "cold back-ups" in cloud storage services on at least two continents.

Geographic Independence

Swarm Servers are linked regardless of their location, allowing Formever to distribute them in multiple secure, hardened facilities, on separate continents. This means that if there was some continent-wide outage in North America the system would start re-building itself in Europe, or vice-versa, or in Asia if Europe and North America were down. So unless the entire Internet goes down, we can keep you going with minimal disruption.

Totally Secure

All Formever data stored on the Swarm Servers and "cold back-ups" are encrypted with strong, 2048-bit encryption so that even if someone managed to obtain unauthorized access the data is unusable. All communications and data transfer among swarm servers and between Swarm Servers and local desktops are also strongly encrypted.