Web Hosting Data Center

Data Center

The James Tower data center was carefully designed to adhere to the strictest of standards.  We offer our customers a PCI compliant facility with all of the physical security, network redundancy and environmental safeguards you should expect when choosing your hosting partner. In addition, our staff of over 150 employees offers you all of the skill sets you may need to implement, maintain and enhance your business critical web sites and applications. 

We've invested heavily to accomplish our goal; your peace of mind.

Data Center Specifications

Facility Statistics and Security

  • "Building within a Building" - 12" thick Concrete en-cased vault with rubber membrane roof inside our concrete building.
  • 18" raised anti-static floor
  • Isolated server build and staging area
  • Restricted access to the server and control room
Facility Statistics and Security

Internet Bandwidth

  • Two 400 Mbps Circuits, scalable to 1GB, to the Internet via Tier One Internet Service Providers
  • Diverse physical and geographical routes to POPs (Point of Presence) 
  • Customer connectivity options include Private data circuits, frame relay or VPN connections.
Internet Bandwidth

Electrical Power

  • Fully redundant A/B Power
  • Service is comprised of 400 amps of power, 3 phased at 480 volts
  • 2 - MGE Comet 150KVA Room Wide Uninterruptible Power Supply
    • Converts municipal AC power provided by Benco to DC then back to AC
    • Bank of 2x36 batteries
  • KatoLite D600FRY4 600KVA, Kilowatt Diesel Generator
    • Cycles up on notification from UPS monitor- 8 seconds to full power
    • 72 hour in-tank supply of diesel fuel on hand
    • Generator tested monthly
Electrical Power

Environmental Control System

  • 2 - Liebert System 3 room-wide cooling system
    • 60 ton cooling capacity
    • 360,000 BTU's (rest of the building has 142 tons)
    • Spare parts on hand
Environmental Control System

Fire Protection

  • FireNet FM 200 Total Flood Dual Zone Fire Suppression System
    • Flash Point reduced to 32°F using Hepta-Floural Propane in 6 seconds
    • Personnel and equipment friendly- no harm to either
 

Storage Area Network (SAN)

  • 44 Terabytes of storage
  • Redundant Power
  • Redundant Fibre Switches
  • Redundant Network Paths
  • Repository for databases, file storage, uploaded images, SNAPSHOTS
  • Fibre Channel - iSCSI Channel
  • Multiple Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices utilizing the SAN for scalability

Network Security & High Availability

  • Multiple Access Control List Secure Routers 
  •  IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) appliances in place
  • Server Operating Systems- Security patches applied and maintained through enterprise vulnerability management suite.
  • Multi-tiered Firewall Infrastructure
  • Multiple Tape Robots
    • Perform nightly back up of all programs and data files hosted
    • Secure off-site tape storage
  • Server redundancy options include:
    • Content switches to support load balanced server farm
    •  RAID disk controllers
  • Network options include:
    • Redundant Production Network Switches
    • Redundant Maintenance Network Switches
  • Alpha and Beta testing:
    • Thorough load testing in simulated Live environment prior to installing applications in production

Centralized Monitoring, Notification and Resolution

  • Alert monitoring and notification for building facilities- staffed call list
    • 3rd Party Web Management Software
    • Ping, URL, profile monitoring, alerting and reporting tools
    • Ping, URL, profile monitoring, alerting and reporting tools
  • Customized scripts can be written to simulate a customer experience through web site
  • Certified, trained technicians
    • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers
    • Red Hat Linux Certified Systems Engineer
    • Alerts sent to a primary pager and cell phones for all team members
    • 24 x 365 support
    • Incident tracking and logging
Storage Area Network (SAN)



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