Our hosting services are provided through RapidSite's advanced network operations center, located in the U.S. It is connected to the world by three high speed DS-3 Internet connections through three separate providers: Sprint, MCI, and UUnet. This high speed connectivity combined with exceptionally fast and reliable servers ensures your Web site will be fast and responsive, 24 hours a day, every day.

RapidSite's advanced technology features the following:

Unix Web Servers

• Silicon Graphics Origin 200 Servers
• 2 GB of RAM
• 3 x 73 GB Hard Drives
• 2 x 180 MHZ RISC CPUs
• Operating System - IRIX V6.5.13
• Web Server Software - Apache V1.3.27

FreeBSD Web Servers

• 2 x Pentium 4 (2.4 GHz 686-class CPU)
• 3 x 73 GB drives
• 2 GB of Memory
• Operating System - FreeBSD 4.4

*New servers are being built with 6.5.13; all other boxes are running 6.5.12 and will be upgraded soon.

Internal Systems

• Silicon Graphics Origin 200/2000
• Symmetrical Processors - Four
• 1024 RAM
• RAID 5
• Sybase Data Base

Usage Statistics

• Silicon Graphics Origin 2000
• 8 - R10000 Processors
• 2752 MB RAM

Foundry BigIron 8000 Routers

• Full BGP to Verio backbone
• Redundant Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to backbone

Internal Web Hosting Backbone

• Redundant Foundry BigIron fiber switch as backbone
• Backbone Speed is Gigabit.
• Foundry workgroup 24 port routers with 100 mb/s to all servers

Connectivity

• Two OC-12's and 3 DS-3's to diverse locations. All connectivity is provided via Verio's tier one backbone.

Backup Power

• 5 - 2.5 Megawatt generators
• dual 300 KVA UPS units

Backup Storage

• 40 TB (terabyte) robotic tape backup system by Storage Technologies employing DLT4 technology.
• 40 TB (terabyte) robotic tape backup system by Spectra Logi employing AIT2 technology.

Web Server (W2K)

• SGI 1200 - http://www.sgi.com/servers/1200/
  • CPU - Dual Intel Pentium III 550-850Mhz
  • Memory - 1-2GB
  • 4 - 18GB-36GB Seagate Cheetah, Mylex 250/16MB Raid 5, 10GB Seagate IDE
• HP LP-2000R - http://netserver.hp.com/products/highlights_lp2000r.asp
  • CPU - Dual Intel Pentium III 1Ghz
  • Memory - 2GB
  • 5 - 36GB Seagate Cheetah, Mylex 170/16MB Raid 5
• OS - Windows 2000 Server SP2
• APPS - IIS 5.0, SQL 7, FP extension 2002, ASPUpload, ASPMail, Mercantec 5.0