The e-Commerce / Web Hosting Data Center Information about the impressive systems employed. BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP The data center was designed from the ground up for maximum reliability. We built a small fortress within a fortress by building a concrete reinforced data center within the concrete reinforced corporate headquarters building. HIGH SECURITY The high security facilities are accessible by authorized personnel only. Access to the building requires electronic ID badges. Access to the data center is limited to top security personnel via electronic palm scanners. ROOM FOR GROWTH The data center contains four autonomous server rooms, each of which can satisfy the hosting needs of over one million Web sites! No other hosting provider can match this infrastructure and scalability. CONDITIONED POWER All the equipment receives conditioned power to protect from damaging voltage spikes, brown-outs, and electromagnetic noise. Even during damaging lightning storms, the servers receive a steady, clean source of power. Backup power generators will automatically supply emergency power in the event of a total power outage. FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS The state-of-the-art fire protection systems include water sprinklers throughout the building and advanced FM200 fire suppression systems in the data center with a dry pipe back-up sprinkler system. Concrete walls, floor, and ceiling further protect the data center in the event of a fire. INDUSTRIAL COOLING SYSTEMS Servers generate quite a bit of heat which is why there are four redundant commercial grade Liebert air conditioning units in each server room. Cool temperatures allow the servers to operate at peak efficiency with enhanced reliability. HIGH SPEED CONNECTIVITY A single T3 45mb/s (ie not 2, 3, 4 or 5 but 45mb/s) connection is more than enough bandwidth for most hosting providers. The data center is connected to the Internet through multiple T3 connections with redundant backup. Data is routed through these connections via Cisco 7505 series routers using the BGP4 protocol to automatically route traffic down the fastest route.  POWERFUL SERVERS Customer Web sites are hosted on multi-processor Silicon Graphics Origin 200 servers for unmatched speed and reliability. Each server is loaded with 256 to 512 MB of RAM, fast Cheetah hard drives and networked together with Foundry Networks Gigabit Ethernet Switches. BACKUP SYSTEMS All customer data is backed up daily to our StorageTek 40 terabyte robotic archival storage system. In the event of a hard drive crash, we can install a new hard drive from our reserve supply while the server is still powered and running and restore the drive content from the tape backup.