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Today's competitive e-business marketplace requires that your business uses the most efficient and reliable hosting services. As a client of NTCHosting, you will reap all the benefits of our state-of-the-art data center.
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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. NTCHosting uses data
center located at the West Coast of United States of America.
The building is a class A, state of the art facility datacenter
that is earthquake proof.
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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.
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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 in excess of 20 minutes without the addition
of power 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.
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Network
Security
The NTCHosting 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, has been built from the ground up and
equipped with various powerful connections to multiple
carriers to ensure uptime and speed consistency and redundancy.
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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 degrees to ensure a comfortable environment
for our servers.
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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
connects 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.
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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.
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Server
hardware
The servers we are using are Dual P4/Xeon at least 2.6
GHz with 1.5 or 2 GB of memory, SCSI hard drives in RAID
and backups. Each server is using a gigabit network card.
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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
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