You know that hosting companies are entities which operate web servers. However, aside from a company's website and toll-free lines, what makes up the infrastructure of a hosting company? HostIndex.com answered this question and is pleased to invite you to join us in touring a newly opened state-of-the-art data center in Atlanta, GA built and owned by Interliant. Over the next few pages, you'll join our tour guide, William Nicholson from Tri Star Web, an Interliant division, and HostIndex.com as we explore their data center in Atlanta.
The NOC[Network Operating Center] is the central nervous system of a data facility, a
limited-access room with automated systems constantly monitoring server
activity, Web traffic, and network performance. Highly
sensitive equipment and the most sophisticated monitoring utilities alert
engineers to minute variations in performance well before a system failure
occurs - so a company can repair, reboot or re-route to back-up systems without
any impact on your Web site performance.
Internet routers, designed to handle traffic from multiple T1/T3 lines, are equipped with redundant supervisor modules and power supplies which immediately intervene in cases of a network failure by moving traffic to another router without any impact on network performance.
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