Archive for February, 2009

Our server migration is complete. We’ve moved to a new data center at 427 S LaSalle, Chicago, IL, USA.

We’ve upgraded our servers with 6 times the processor speed, 4 times the ram and moved to a more centralized data center which will yield super fast access throughout the USA, Europe and the Asia-Pacific market.

This is a beast of a server!

All webhosting clients are now hosted on:

• Intel Dual Xeon Harpertown
• CPUs : Intel Dual Xeon E5405 (8 Cores x 2.00GHZ 2 x 12MB Cache)
• 8GB ECC Registered Ram
• Primary Disk:Hardware Raid-5 Disk Array
• 3×500GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache
• Hot Swap Hard Drives
• Backup Drive: 500GB SATA II 7200 RPM 16MB Cache

We now have 5 Tier 1 bandwidth providers that are amongst the very best available on the Internet. This is premium bandwidth and a totally redundant system. Basically this means we should never go down unless there is a server reboot for a software upgrade.

Should we have a hard drive failure, two dives will still server up your content. A failed drive can be hot swapped on the fly with zero downtime.

.999989% Uptime Over Two Years Time

In the past two years the server was down 5 times. Four were for software upgrades and once we had 2 hours of downtime over a backup generator issue during a power outage at the previous data center. All-in-all that is pretty remarkable. Out of 17,520 hours we were down for two hours.

E-mail Changes

For those who are using our mail services there are a couple of changes you should make with your e-mail client.

Use this format to setup your e-mail accounts:

User: yourname+yourdomain.com
Password: what ever you chose as a password

SMTP: mail.yourdomain.com
POP: mail.yourdomain.com
IMAP: mail.yourdomain.com

George

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