Hosting

We develop, test and obtain client approval for all web projects at our in-office staging facility. It mirrors our production environment and provides the ability to fully test and review a site prior to launch.

Once a site or solution is approved (and assuming you want us to provide hosting services) we send it to our co-location facility at AT&T in Redwood City. AT&T is a Tier One provider of scalable, high-performance Internet solutions for the corporate and commercial markets. We have a dedicated and guaranteed 100 megabit (equal to over 60 T-1 lines!) connection to the Internet at AT&T.

Our production routers, web, mail, DNS, and UniFide™ application servers all run the Red Hat Linux operating system. Linux provides unsurpassed robustness and security for our production environment. We build and maintain all our own servers to ensure maximum performance for our clients.

We run backups daily and use a modified "Tower of Hanoi" backup strategy for snapshots of site status at daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly intervals. Production data resides on four different physical systems. Rather than using tape, all data is stored on hard drives to minimize recovery time should a disaster occur. Our premium hosting environment also offers automatic failover. If a web server should crash, the failover system automatically assumes the identity of the failed service.