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foradomain.com recognizes that downtime is not
an option for your servers. That's why we invest heavily in hardware and facilities
that ensure that your clients are up and running on the web 24 hours a day, seven
days a week.
foradomain.com's Network Operations Center (NOC) features raised flooring. This
enables a constant flow of conditioned air and helps to maintain uniform room
temperature at all times. In addition, raised flooring reduces static and ensures
a professional, computer-grade environment for your servers.
The facility is equipped with a Raytheon fire suppression system, designed to
immediately extinguish fire and protect equipment and personnel. The command center
is controlled via automatic doors to further secure and protect the equipment.
Finally, the NOC is located in a secure, monitored, class A building with a minimum
number of approved personnel allowed access to highly sensitive areas and equipment.
A detailed record of employee and visitor entry is maintained at all times.
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Uninterruptible Power System
To guard against local power failures, foradomain.com has two industrial-grade,
three-phase Liebert UPS systems. These act as back-up batteries, maintaining uninterrupted
power in case of surges or power outages. With these back-up systems in place,
we can keep our network up and running indefinitely without relying on external
power.
Industrial-Grade Air Conditioners
foradomain.com's NOC has two Liebert 10 ton industrial air conditioners that condition
our computer rooms and operations center. Air temperature is maintained at an
optimal 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Custom Web Servers
foradomain.com's web servers are custom-built industrial machines designed for
a 24/7 web serving environment. All foradomain.com servers are equipped with dual-redundant,
450-watt power supplies, hot swap Seagate Baracuda/Cheetah drives and force-filtered
cooling systems. In addition, our NOC is equipped with an inventory of identically
configured, burned-in standby servers.
Force Filtered Cooling
All of foradomain.com's custom web servers are equipped with a positive-pressure
filtered-air system. Four large fans pull filtered air into each server's protective
case, and the components within are cooled by fans that circulate this purified
air. This constant introduction of clean air into the case creates a positive
pressure environment ensuring that dust and particles remain outside the server.
Hot Swap Seagate Drives
The drives and drive bays of all foradomain.com servers are constructed from high-grade
aluminum and rest in shock-mounted drive cages, which adds to the durability of
the hardware. foradomain.com's drives proudly feature the lowest failure rate
in the industry.
Redundant Hot Swap Power Supplies
Each server employs dual-redundant hot swap power supplies. If a power supply
were to fail, the server would continue running with power from the alternate
supply. Meanwhile, alarms would alert a technician, who would quickly restore
redundancy. In the meantime, servers and client sites would experience no downtime.
Standby Servers
We keep spare servers online 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.
Connected to Three Backbones
The foradomain.com NOC, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is OnNet with GlobalCenter
(GC), Qwest Communications and GTE through three separate bandwidth-on-demand
connections that enter Baltimore in our building.
GC, a Tier 1 provider with a 13,000-mile fiber optic network and Dense Wave Division
Multiplexing (DWDM) technology that provides an enormous 460 gigabytes per second
(Gbps) of capacity worldwide, has an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) fiber node
located just a few floors below the foradomain.com NOC.
Qwest comes into Baltimore with an OC-12 line and plans to upgrade its connection
to an OC-48 in the near future. Qwest also has an ATM fiber node just floors below
the foradomain.com NOC. Our Qwest connection enables foradomain.com to offer additional
redundancy and better routes to Europe, Latin America and Asia. With our carriers,
our router has up to 150,000 possible routes to send each packet of traffic.
Genuity, a division of GTE, is our third Tier One Internet backbone. Genuity provides
excellent network performance as a result of high-speed peering arrangements with
other Tier One Internet backbone providers. The GTE global network delivers customers
directly onto the Internet via a high-speed connection to its private, super-capacity
backbone, including 17,000 miles of fiber and OC192 capacity. It is comprised
of more than 800 U.S. local access points and approximately 1,500 international
local access points in more than 150 countries.
Furthermore, because of these unique connections, foradomain.com does not need
to link to the Internet through an OC3 or T3 Telecom circuit. Instead, independent
cables run inside our building directly from the foradomain.com NOC to all three
carriers' points of presence. These lines can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or
an OC3 with DWDM. Plus, they handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3. Whatever
your bandwidth needs may be, foradomain.com has the scalability to meet them.
Network Redundancy
foradomain.com uses intelligent end-user routing software called Border Gateway
Protocol (BGP) between Qwest, GC and GTE, which use the same protocol. BGP identifies
which path is the most efficient for each data packet and then routes the packet
to its destination on the fastest path. This increases the speed at which web
pages sent from our NOC arrive at their destination.
Studies have shown that the most common reason for downtime is circuit failure
on Tier 1 provider backbones, the major data highways. To guard against this potential
problem, we have three Tier-1 providers. If one experiences problems, we can route
traffic down another one. Furthermore, because we are OnNet with GlobalCenter,
Qwest and GTE, we share their digital distribution architecture, which includes
private peering network connections to major Internet carriers such as MCI, Sprint,
UUNET, EUNET, AT&T, AOL, Best, Erols, @Home, IBM Advantis and others. These
private peering arrangements allow foradomain.com to quickly and efficiently exchange
packets of data with every major backbone carrier in a one-to-one environment.
In addition, GC has high-speed links to eight public exchanges including both
MAE East and West and several NAPS. Through these public exchanges, customers
have the ability to reach their sites, no matter where they are.
Network Reliability
Industry analysis reveals that 70% of downtime of over 10 hours with any ISP is
caused by telephone circuit failure. With foradomain.com, circuit failure is virtually
eliminated. That's because our NOC is in the same building as GlobalCenter, Qwest
and GTE. There is no phone circuit between foradomain.com and these providers.
Instead, there is a direct connection between our Cisco 7500 routers and theirs.
foradomain.com's providers also have peering connections with other major Tier
1 providers that allow traffic to be switched to alternate backbones should the
need arise.
Raw Performance Equals
Low Latency/High Throughput
Too often providers operate their networks at three to four times their responsible
capacity. As a result, their corresponding transfer times reach over 300ms. foradomain.com's
network daily average is 27% of its capacity, with midday peak spikes reaching
only 33% capacity. foradomain.com guarantees that clients will be carried off
our network in less than 80ms over a five-minute average at any time of day or
night.
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