Your Web Host Data Center
Built for Ultimate High-Speed Performance, Reliability and Stability!
Connected to Three Internet Backbones
The Your Web Host NOC, located in Baltimore, Maryland USA, is OnNet with GlobalCenter (GC), Qwest Communications and GTE through three separate bandwidth-on-demand connections that enter Baltimore in our building. Your Web Host is directly linked to the internet by independent cables connected to all of our carriers points of presence. Whatever your bandwidth needs, Your Web Host has the capacity and scalability to meet them
Global Center (GC), a Tier 1 provider, has a 13,000-mile fiber optic network that uses Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology. This platform 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 Your Web Host NOC.
Qwest Communications comes into Baltimore with an OC-12 line and has an ATM fiber node just floors below the Your Web Host NOC. Our Qwest connection enables Your Web Host to offer additional redundancy and better routes to Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Genuity, a division of GTE, 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.
Redundancy
“Studies show the most common reason for downtime is circuit failure on a Tier 1 provider backbone.”
Your Web Host connectivity configuration automatically routes traffic to another Tier 1 backbone in the event of a Tier1 circuit failure. 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 Your Web Host to quickly and efficiently exchange packets of data with every major backbone carrier in a one-to-one environment.
Your Web Host uses intelligent end-user routing software called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) between Qwest, GC and GTE. BGP identifies the most efficient path among our backbone providers and automatically selects the most efficient route to ensure your website content is delivered fast.
Reliability
“Industry analysis reveals that 70% of downtime of over 10 hours with any ISP is caused by telephone circuit failure.”
Your Web Host has eliminated the potential for telephony circuit failure. There are no telephony circuits between Your Web Host and our Tier 1 providers, just a direct connection between our Cisco routers and our Tier 1 provider routers. Your Web Host's Tier 1 providers also have peering connections with other major Tier 1 providers that allow traffic to be switched to alternate backbones should the need arise.
Raised Flooring
Your Web Host'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.
Fire Suppression
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.
Secured, 24/7 Monitored Facility
The NOC is located in a secure, monitored, class A building. Restricted access is enforced with a detailed record of employee and visitor entry is maintained at all times.
Uninterruptible Power System
Your Web Host has two industrial-grade, three-phase Liebert UPS systems. These UPS units protect against power surges and ensure our network, and your website will stay up and running indefinitely without relying on external power.
Industrial-Grade Air Conditioners
Your Web Host'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
Your Web Host's web servers are custom-built industrial machines designed for a 24/7 web serving environment. All Your Web Host servers are equipped with dual-redundant, 450-watt power supplies, hot swap Seagate Baracuda/Cheetah drives and force-filtered cooling systems. We also keep an inventory of identically configured, burned-in standby servers.
Force Filtered Cooling
All of Your Web Host's custom web servers are equipped with a positive-pressure filtered-air system that keep dust and particles outside of our servers. Four large fans pull filtered air into each server's protective case, minimizing hardware failure and ensuring server components within are cooled by fans that circulate purified air.
Hot Swap Seagate Drives
Your Web Host's drives proudly feature the lowest failure rate in the industry.
The drives and drive bays of all Your Web Host servers are constructed from high-grade aluminum and rest in shock-mounted drive cages, which adds to the durability of the hardware.
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, ensuring your website will not experience any 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.
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