NewsHelp.com provides world-class Internet technology with a state-of-the-art data center and hosting facilities in offices located in McMinnville, Oregon.
Hosting your site with us guarantees:
• Reliable server performance
• Fast, reliable technical and customer service support
• Efficient deployment of product upgrades
Our data center features:
• Redundant high bandwidth connections
• Backup power supplies
• High-speed web servers
• Publishing system written in Allaire Cold Fusion programming language
• Databases driven by Microsoft's SQL server 2000
• Available bandwidth of two DS3 phone/data lines – the equivalent of 60 T1 lines
Specifications
Internet and Transport
• A redundant OC48 SONET ATM ring provided by Verizon
• 24 strands of underground fiber between our facilities and the Verizon central office
• Caged co-location in the Verizon central office
• A private OC12 running over the fiber on Cisco/Cerant equipment that allows multiple DS3s and OC3s to be provisioned between our facilities and Verizon
• Multiple DS3 Internet connections to multiple major Internet backbone providers
• Cisco 7206VXR router infrastructure
Server Implementation
• Redundant and load-balancing checkpoint firewalls capable of 500 megabits/second throughput.
• Redundant gigabit ethernet switch fabric.
• Compaq DL580 Quad Processor Windows 2000 Cluster using fibre-channel storage. This cluster provides high availability for mail, SQL Server 2000, and network attached storage which provides content for the web servers.
• Compaq DL380 Windows 2000 Web Servers. (UNIX servers available.)
• Fiber-channel storage system scalable to 3 terabytes.
• Fiber-channel backup system to offload backup jobs from the network.
• Checkpoint firewall can load balance both UNIX and NT web sites across
multiple web servers for scalability and redundancy.
