Our Hardware

Intel & AMD Servers

Your site will be hosted on one of our continuously monitored, high performance servers. We only use the highest quality parts and test all servers before we put an clients on them.

Force-Filtered Cooling

All the drives, motherboards, and power supplies of our computers are in cases with a positive pressure filtered air environment. Two large fans pull air into the protective case through filters, and the components within are cooled by fans which circulate this purified air. The constant introduction of clean air into the case creates a positive pressure environment, ensuring that dust and particulates are swept out and never in. Raised floors that push air up through force filtered-air up through server cabinets.

Standby Servers

We keep spares on-line of all CPU configurations. If your server were to experience a hardware failure we would literally turn a key, grab the handle on your drive, pull it out, and insert it into an identical standby CPU. We would reboot the second machine and your site would be up and running again in a matter of minutes.

Hot Swap Drives

The drives and drive bays of our servers are all constructed from high-grade aluminum, and rest in a Shock Mounted Drive Cage, which adds to the durability of the hardware. The drives are hot swappable, which means that if any part of the server were to fail we could simply insert your drive into an identical standby machine. This entire process takes under 5 minutes.  In addition, we backup our servers nightly.  If a drive has a problem, all we have to do is copy your backup (never more than 24 hours old) onto a standby machine which is already on-line. Your site is up and running within a matter of minutes.

Redundant Hot Swap Power Supplies

Each server has dual redundant hot swap power supplies.  If one of these power supplies were to fail, the server would not go down because each power supply is capable of running the server by itself, indefinitely. Meanwhile, alarms would alert our technicians to the problem; they would restore redundancy by swapping out the failed unit with one of our spares and then service the old unit. During all this, your site would never be down.

Facility Equipment

The facility backbone consists of Foundry Gigabit switches, HP ProCurve switches and Cisco routers. Full Tape Backup System on network with daily updated backups.