Impressive Bandwidth
&
Redundant Connectivity






3 Tier-I Providers
Means Reliability

Our Network Center is 'OnNet' with Frontier Global Center® via their OC12 fiber optic cable. Frontier is a Tier 1 provider which also provides Internet bandwidth to Yahoo®, Netscape®, and Ebay®. We have a direct fiber connection between our routers and Frontier's routers in the same building!

'OnNet' means we are not merely connected to an Internet backbone, we are on it!

In addition to the Bandwidth-On-Demand Frontier link, we are also similarly connected to Qwest® Communication's OC12 line which provides us with redundancy and increased routes to Europe, Latin America and Asia. And Genuity/GTE provides us with a 3rd backbone connection as well as numerous private peering arrangements.

State-of-the-art servers

Our web servers are custom-built heavy-duty machines designed for a 24/7 web serving environment. All are equipped with dual redundant power supplies, hot-swappable industrial hard drives and force-filtered cooling systems.

Our Network Operations Center (NOC) is equipped with uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and a temperature-controlled environment, all located in a secure, monitored facility.


The NOC (Network Operations Center) is staffed 24 hours a day, every day. Built-in alarms on the servers alert the technical staff to trouble sometimes before it can start! Hardware and software monitoring is just another way we provide security and uptime.

We back up our servers nightly. If the industrial grade drive were to fail, all we would have to do is copy the backup (never more than 24 hours old) onto a standby machine which is already on-line. The server would be up and running within a matter of minutes. We even keep spare servers on-line for emergencies. If a server were to experience a hardware failure we would have the ability to quickly turn a key, grab the handle on the drive, pull it out, and insert it into an identical standby server. We would reboot the second machine and the server would be up and running again in a matter of minutes.

Current Minimum Server Specifications

  • Pentium III processors
  • 1 GB SDRAM
  • 18 GB hard drive storage
  • Cisco 7200 Routers
  • 100 BaseT Ethernet connections
  • Apache web server running on RedHat Linux

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