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
- Our 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 above 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.)
- Fibre-channel storage system scalable to 3 terabytes.
- Fibre-channel backup system to offload backup jobs from the gigabit network.
- Checkpoint firewall can load balance both UNIX and NT web sites across multiple web servers for scalability and redundancy (similar to redundant BigIP).
