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Impressive
Bandwidth
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Redundant Connectivity
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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!
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'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
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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.
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Network Operations Center (NOC) is equipped with uninterruptible
power supplies (UPSs) and a temperature-controlled environment,
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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.
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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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