How We Do It?

A lot of people ask us this question. Usually for a couple of different reasons; financial and technical.

Those asking from a financial perspective usually want to know how we offer so much at such a low price. So low in fact that other web providers that claim to have the lowest price on the 'net can't even touch our features at our prices. The answer to this question is actually remarkably simple - we keep our prices down by doing volume. It doesn't actually cost us a whole lot more for infrastructure if we have 4500 or 5000 clients. Every so often we require more bandwidth, more servers and the like, but because of our huge customer base, we can take advantage of tremendous economies of scale. Not too mention that we have automated much of our procedures which has allowed us to do away with the fine print details like "Setup Fees" and "Hit Charges" and other nasty surprises like that. All of this adds up to lower prices for our clients.

Those asking us from a technical perspective usually want hard core information about what we do on the back end that makes things work. We run a pretty big operation down here so it all makes out for a reasonably long answer, but if you are technically inclined, you might want to read on.

• Server OS - BSDI 2.1, fully patched
• HTTPD Software - Apache v1.1.1
• Server Platform - Intel, Pentium Pro 200, 256mb RAM, 11gb HD
• Number of Physical Servers - 16
• Network Capacity - Dual T3 with T1 redundancy to regional NSP.
• Disaster Recovery - The server network is located in two geographically separated locations via a high-speed link. Ongoing replication is made between the two locations ensuring a full mirror of the network storage exists at both locations. All servers utilize APC UPS to ensure up-time during power outages. This also allow for our network operations staff to shift operations to another NOC in the event that the power outage will exceed that of the UPS capacity. Additionally, all managed web servers are fully backed up on a daily basis with all data tapes stored off-site (in rotation) to ensure complete recovery in the event of act of god at both NOC.