|  The
data center in which most of our servers are running is located in St. Louis,
Missouri, USA. The city of St. Louis is at a strategic central location in the
United States which is safe from Wars, Earthquakes, and Hurricanes. St. Louis'
central location makes it an ideal place to distribute Internet data throughout
the United States and all over the world. Brainbench survey ranked St. Louis no.
6 for IT IQ among all US cities
The
data center building is a steel framed building with triple power feeds from the
electric utility company. All major carriers (AT&T, MCI Worldcom, Level 3,
Southwestern Bell, ... etc) have POPs in the building.
This 22,000 square
feet data center can host over 10,000 servers and is monitored by our 24x7 on-site
tech staff.
On the Internet, speed is king. Slow download pages turn your
users off. You get better return from your advertising investment when your pages
download fast. According
to Boardwatch magizine, most of the Internet's traffic is carried by a few major
backbone providers such as UUNET (MCI Worldcom), Sprint, AT&T,etc. To ensure
this our hosted web pages get to users fast as the data center is directly linked
to these Internet backbones. Most users can reach our data center via a single
backbone which avoids the common network problem: traffic jam at the backbone
intersections. The
data center is only linked to the world best Internet backbones such as UUNET,
Sprint, AT&T and Level 3. Backbone connections are purchased from these top
rated providers where network uptime is guaranteed. The data center does not exchange
traffic free with other providers at public exchange points such as MAE-East and
MAE-West. Such peering agreement has no service quality guarantee. You often see
packet loss at these public exchange points. Most
of our servers are located at state-of-the-art Internet data center which is engineered
for high performance and redundancy. It has rich fiber connections to all major
carriers and scalable bandwidth capacity from OC3 to OC192.
- Power
System
- Data
Center Cooling Systems
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Fire Protection
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Standby Servers
Our
Data center has spare servers on-line of all CPU configurations. If a server were
to experience a hardware failure, they would turn a key, grab the handle on the
drive, pull it out, and inser it into an identical standby CPU. We would then
reboot the second machine and the server would be up and running again in a matter
of minutes. |
