Our Datacenter & Facilities
Your web site will be stored in an award winning, multi-million dollar
datacenters known as the
Equinix IBX Center.
Based in the heart of Chicago, IL, the datacenter is designed to
withstand just about anything that mother nature can throw at it. It can
continue to serve your website for months even if electricity is
disconnected. We are hooked to several network providers and backbones in
order to insure redundant connections to the Internet. Below are some
photographs of The facilities. Please be patient. It may take a moment
for the images below to fully load.
- Every one of our web servers is connected to a line burst-able up
to 100 MBPS -- even though our traffic levels have never bursted past
15 MBPS per server.
- Primary and secondary connections to the following Internet
backbone providers:
- Time Warner
- Internap
- Bell South
- Other providers...
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| Server cages. Each secured with their own hand geometry
reader. Each cage is secured with a kinetic combination lock. |
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| Hand geometry readers insure that only authorized
personal are able to access the facility, and then the cages in question.
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| Network operations center is staffed 24/7/365 by
licensed network administrators. |
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| Digital closed circuit TV records literally everything
that happens in the IBX Center. |
Other impressive features at the IBX Center:
Cable distribution systems
Digital closed circuit TV records literally everything that happens in
the IBX Center.
Impressive fire suppression systems will not disburse any chemicals or
water unless several electronically controlled triggers are set off.
Power generators and backup systems can insure long periods of
uninterrupted power supplies, even if the outside power grids fail. |
