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Web Hosting
Web Hosting Data
Center
Today's competitive e-business marketplace
requires that your business uses the most
efficient and reliable hosting services. As client
of ECSnap.com on the Internet today, you will reap
all the benefits of our state-of-the-art data
center.
The
Building
The physical environment necessary to keep the
servers up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week is provided by Hostcentric's Internet Data
Centers. ECSnap.com uses a data center located on
the West Coast of the USA. The building is a class
A, state of the art facility datacenter which is
earthquake proof.
Redundant High Bandwidth
Connectivity
The West Coast Data Center is owned by Hostcentric,
located at Fremont, CA. The network capacity
exceeds 2.5 Gigs of Internet connectivity via DS3,
OC3, OC12, and Gigabit Ethernet connections to a
wide variety of peer points and several transit
providers. The circuits are terminated in our data
center on carrier class, Cisco Systems 12000
routers.
Conditioned power
Power quality in the datacenter is ensured by
multiple independent Liebert UPS systems. Should
the utility power fail, the mission critical
electrical loads at the datacenter are provided by
the Liebert UPS systems, which are configured with
automatic static bypass and manually operated
full-maintenance bypass circuits. Each UPS module
has its own DC battery bank with sufficient
capacity to sustain its critical bus for periods
exceeding 20 minutes without additional power
supply from utility or generator sources.
Standby generator: The electrical utility service
(PG&E) is backed up via a stand-by diesel power
generator activated by an Onan automatic transfer
switch. The generator is a 750 KW Cummins-Onan,
with sufficient on-site fuel to run continuously
for over 24 hours.
Network Security
The ECSnap network is a fully switched network.
Traffic destined for a website hosted on a server
is sent only through switching equipment necessary
to deliver the information to that server. This
minimizes the risk of someone sniffing or
capturing traffic being sent across the network.
Our data center, was built from the ground up and
is equipped with various high capacity connections
to multiple carriers to ensure uptime and speed
consistency and redundancy.
Regulated Climate Control
The data center's HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air
Conditioning) system is N+1 redundant. With full
particle filtering and humidity control, the
environment is maintained at a cool 68° F to
ensure a comfortable environment for our servers.
The Network
As a Tier 1 ISP, Hostcentric has established
extensive public and private peering
relationships. Peer points currently include the
Pacific Bell NAP and Palo Alto Internet Exchange.
BGP4 is used for optimal route selection and
automatic fail over.
Network bandwidth is carefully monitored to ensure
that customer utilization does not exceed online
capacity during peak Internet traffic times.
Our datacenter "Cisco Powered Network" relies on
redundant Cisco 12000 series routers and 6500
series switches at its core, and can be made fully
redundant all the way down to the customer server.
Dual core routers
at the top layer connect to a layer-three,
switched backbone. This switching fabric connects
to a layer two distribution switch infrastructure
that in turn connects to a bandwidth managing
"Officer". The bandwidth manager controls traffic
from multiple layer two switches mounted on the
customer's rack that are connected to individual
servers. For additional redundancy, customers may
be dual homed by purchasing an additional Ethernet
port and diverse cabling that terminates on a
second switch.
Hostcentric
Officers provide traffic graphing and
sophisticated bandwidth management. To monitor
their packet traffic customers are provided with
one bandwidth graph per Internet uplink
connection.
Uptime
Hostcentric network operation centers are staffed
24 hours per day, 7 days each week by skilled
technicians. Industry-leading service level
agreements highlight company guarantees like 100%
network uptime.
Server hardware
The servers we are using are Dual P4/Xeon at least
2.6 GHz with 1.5 or 2 GB memory, SCSI hard drives
in RAID and backups. Each server is using a
gigabit network card.
Standby Servers
We keep spare servers on-line of all
CPU configurations. If a server were to experience
a hardware failure, we would turn a key, grab the
handle on the drive, pull it out, and insert 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.
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