Hosting Environment

COMWeb puts a great deal of importance into providing a Reliable, Secure Environment for the service being delivered to You. We recognize the importance of High Availability, Hardware Redundancy and Secure Backups for your Data.

COMWeb understands that in order to deliver premium SAAS services, the facility and network these services run on are Secure, Robust, and Redundant. To that end, COMWeb's Hosting Provider has positioned itself at one of the Premium Datacenters in the World, and engineered its Hosting Network for low Latency, Maximum Uptime, and Multi-layered Security. The Data Center is located in the Miami area in Florida, USA.

 

Structure and Security

• 32 feet above sea level. The ground level of the building is 14 feet above sea level.
• Cutting-edge surge/lightning prevention system works in a radius of 300 ft. to detract strikes by discharging a static electricity flare.
• Roof slope designed to aid in drainage of floodwater in excess of 100-year storm intensity assisted by 18 rooftop drains.
• The building is designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane with 12 million pounds of roof ballast.
• 7' thick solid concrete exterior panels.
• The building is outside FEMA 500-year designated flood zone.
• The building is outside the Miami-Dade hurricane evacuation zone.
• 2 separate armed security checkpoints

Power

• 100% AC or DC power availability guarantee.
• Redundant power vaults fed from multiple substations
• Two independent 13,200 volt feeders supply the high voltage switchgear.
• Uninterrupted, stable power delivered by 6 HiTEC
• Continuous Power Systems (CPS) which provide a transfer time 10 times better than a typical UPS power system found in most data centers.
• Each HiTEC unit is rated at 1800 kilowatts for a total of 10.8 megawatts of capacity.

Network Connectivity and Security

• Four redundant gigabit connections through Tier1 and Tier2 providers with BGP4 for complete access redundancy. Tier1 providers are Global Crossing and Savvis, with Expedient and Terremark as Tier2 providers (each with multiple OC-48 and Gig-E Tier1 uplinks.)
• Award-winning multi-layer Intrusion Protection and Intrusion Detection Systems, as well as full-featured redundant stateful packet inspection firewalls.
• Individual firewalls, IPS and IDS systems available for dedicated servers, providing the ultimate layer of protection.

Server Hardware and Software

• Multiple servers running Microsoft's Windows Server 2003/2008
• Redundant webservers running IIS 6.0/7.0
• Redundant database servers running SQL Server 2005
• Central HA SAN of high speed disk storage
• Multiple load balancing appliances
• Applications coded using Microsoft .Net 3.5 technology