Our servers are custom-built Dell and Sun machines designed for a high-demand 24/7 web serving environment. All of our servers are equipped with dual redundant 450-watt power supplies, hot swap Fujitsu drives and force-filtered cooling systems.

Our network is equipped with standby machines, industry-leading Liebert uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and a temperature-controlled environment. We also have a diesel-powered backup system just in case the power goes out.

Force Filtered Cooling
All the drives, motherboards, and power supplies of our server are in cases with a positive pressure filtered-air environment. Two large fans pull filtered air into the protective case, and the components within are cooled by fans which circulate this purified air. The constant introduction of clean air into the case creates a positive pressure environment ensuring that dust and particles remain out.

Hot Swap Fujitsu Drives
The drives and drive bays of our servers are all constructed from high-grade aluminum, and rest in a Shock Mounted Drive Cage, which adds to the durability of the hardware. We back up our servers nightly. If the industrial grade drive were to fail, all we would have to do is copy the backup (never more than 24 hours old) onto a standby machine which is already on-line. The site would be up and running within a matter of minutes.

Redundant Hot Swap Power Supplies
Each server has dual-redundant hot swap power supplies. If one of these power supplies were to fail, the server would not go down because each power supply is capable of running the server by itself, indefinitely. Meanwhile, alarms would alert our technicians to the problem; they would restore redundancy with one of our spares and then service the failed supply unit. During all this, sites on our network would never be down.

Server Details:

24/7 Monitoring
Dell Xeon Dual Processor
2GB RAM on server
Linux Red Hat 7.3 on an Apache server
On-site backup generator
Primary GigE backbone
Secondary OC12 backbone

Apache: 1.3.35
PHP: 4.4.10
MySQL: 5.0