| Our Data Center features
high level security, raised flooring, climate-control, UPS power
supply, fire suppression system as well as multiple redundant
connections to major backbones such as Verio, Williams, UUNET,
Level3, Genuity, Sprint and Verizon. The Data Center is also
equipped with backup batteries and diesel generators, Cisco
routers and switches; and is staffed 24x7 by qualified system
administrators and engineers. All servers are secured in a state
of the art Smart POP; monitored by both on hand technicians,
IP cameras and door security via Hand geometry reader; OC3C
connections are physically diverse and Sonet protected; dual
power feeds backed up with UPS, Rectifiers, Batteries and Generator
to ensure our customers have near zero down time. Our Data Center
uses industry-standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
and provides round-the-clock monitoring of all hardware, including
routers, switches, UPS systems, and servers. The Data Center
also monitors power, environmental factors (such as temperature
and humidity), generator status, and network connectivity. All
critical services are monitored. In addition, our Data center
is located in one of the 2 main Telco Hotel vaults in Atlanta,
GA - with access to all the major fiber and IP backbones and
the highest quality of power and security.
What is BGP4 and how does it work?
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging
routing information between gateway hosts (each with its own
router) in a network of autonomous systems. BGP is often the
protocol used between gateway hosts on the Internet. The routing
table contains a list of known routers, the addresses they
can reach, and a cost metric associated with the path to each
router so that the best available route is chosen.
Hosts using BGP communicate using the Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) and send updated router table information only
when one host has detected a change. Only the affected part
of the routing table is sent. BGP-4, the latest version, lets
administrators configure cost metrics based on policy statements.
(BGP-4 is sometimes called BGP4, without the hyphen.) BGP
communicates with autonomous (local) networks using Internal
BGP (IBGP) since it doesn't work well with IGP. The routers
inside the autonomous network thus maintain two routing tables:
one for the interior gateway protocol and one for IBGP. BGP-4
makes it easy to use Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR),
which is a way to have more addresses within the network than
with the current IP address assignment scheme.
What does this mean to you, the customer?
This means that the network data is analyzed and built into
a custom BGP table that is the fastest possible route to you.
This is done every 4 seconds and the BGP tables are updated
every four seconds to keep the network running at a top notch
speed! This gives visitors' to your website the fastest access
to the content while ensuring the connection remains redundant.
In simpler words this means that your server will remain available
without any interruptions incase one of our bandwidth providers
does go down.
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