Web
Hosting Data Center
Today's
competitive e-business marketplace requires that your
business uses the most efficient and reliable hosting
services. As client of EicraSoft on the Internet
today, you will reap all the benefits of our
state-of-the-art data center.
The
Building
The physical
environment necessary to keep the servers up and running
24 hours a day, 7 days a week is provided by
Hostcentric's Internet Data Centers. EicraSoft uses a data center located on the West Coast of the USA.
The building is a class A, state of the art facility
datacenter which is earthquake proof.
Redundant
High Bandwidth Connectivity
The WestCoast Data
Center is owned by WebHostcenctric, located at Fremont,
CA. The network capacity exceeds 2.5 Gigs of Internet
connectivity via DS3, OC3, OC12, and Gigabit Ethernet
connections to a wide variety of peer points and several
transit providers. The circuits are terminated in our
data center on carrier class, Cisco Systems 12000
routers.
Conditioned
power
Power quality in
the datacenter is ensured by multiple independent
Liebert UPS systems. Should the utility power fail, the
mission critical electrical loads at the datacenter are
provided by the Liebert UPS systems, which are
configured with automatic static bypass and manually
operated full-maintenance bypass circuits. Each UPS
module has its own DC battery bank with sufficient
capacity to sustain its critical bus for periods
exceeding 20 minutes without additional power supply
from utility or generator sources.
Standby generator:
The electrical utility service (PG&E) is backed up via a
stand-by diesel power generator activated by an Onan
automatic transfer switch. The generator is a 750 KW
Cummins-Onan, with sufficient on-site fuel to run
continuously for over 24 hours.
Network
Security
The EicraSoft
network is a fully switched network. Traffic destined
for a website hosted on a server is sent only through
switching equipment necessary to deliver the information
to that server. This minimizes the risk of someone
sniffing or capturing traffic being sent across the
network.
Our data center,
was built from the ground up and is equipped with
various high capacity connections to multiple carriers
to ensure uptime and speed consistency and redundancy.
Regulated
Climate Control
The data center's
HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) system is
N+1 redundant. With full particle filtering and humidity
control, the environment is maintained at a cool 68° F
to ensure a comfortable environment for our servers.
The
Network
As a Tier 1 ISP,
WebHostcenctric has established extensive public and
private peering relationships. Peer points currently
include the Pacific Bell NAP and Palo Alto Internet
Exchange. BGP4 is used for optimal route selection and
automatic fail over.
Network bandwidth
is carefully monitored to ensure that customer
utilization does not exceed online capacity during peak
Internet traffic times.
Our datacenter
"Cisco Powered Network" relies on redundant Cisco 12000
series routers and 6500 series switches at its core, and
can be made fully redundant all the way down to the
customer server.
Dual core routers
at the top layer connect to a layer-three, switched
backbone. This switching fabric connects to a layer two
distribution switch infrastructure that in turn connects
to a bandwidth managing "Officer". The bandwidth manager
controls traffic from multiple layer two switches
mounted on the customer's rack that are connected to
individual servers. For additional redundancy, customers
may be dual homed by purchasing an additional Ethernet
port and diverse cabling that terminates on a second
switch.
WebHostcenctric
Officers provide traffic graphing and sophisticated
bandwidth management. To monitor their packet traffic
customers are provided with one bandwidth graph per
Internet uplink connection.
Uptime
Hostcentric
network operation centers are staffed 24 hours per day,
7 days each week by skilled technicians.
Industry-leading service level agreements highlight
company guarantees like 100% network uptime.
Server
hardware
The servers we are
using are Dual P4/Xeon at least 2.6 GHz with 1.5 or 2 GB
memory, SCSI hard drives in RAID and backups. Each
server is using a gigabit network card.
Standby
Servers
We keep spare
servers on-line of all CPU configurations. If a server
were to experience a hardware failure, we would turn a
key, grab the handle on the drive, pull it out, and
insert it into an identical standby CPU. We would then
reboot the second machine and the server would be up and
running again in a matter of minutes.
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