In late 1970, desktop computers were starting to become popular and necessary
for small business to become more efficient. For this reason management
got in on the ground floor and become involved in manufacturing computers
locally. After two years, because of the very intense competition
and the lack of available software, the corporate focus shifted to
the development of software. At that point in time there was very
little sophisticated software available and no custom designed software
for specialty applications. The corporation becomes completely involved
in
marketing,
custom designing software programs and
contract programming. Many of the programming contracts were
with companies such as American College Testing (ACT), MCI, National
Computer Systems and several others as a sub contractor for the US
Government.
Starting in 1997 management was starting to explore
web site hosting
and
web site design. The results showed there would be a large
market for this type of service now and in the future.
In addition,
Drewelow and Associates, Inc.
offers web site hosting and web site design. Please visit the
Page to view details and samples of our designs. Following is information
about the corporation’s hosting servers.
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Network |
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The Hosting Solutions Network Operations Center is "OnNet" with Frontier Global
Center (FGC), which means that we have a direct fiber optic connection between
our Cisco 7200 router and theirs. Being OnNet with a Tier-1 provider means that
we don't link to a backbone, we are actually on a backbone. We have no phone
circuit, and do not use a Telecom link to get to the Internet; instead,
we have an in-house connection directly to FGC's ATM fiber node, located
a few floors below our servers in the same building. This fiber optic
line can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3, and with FGC's Dense
Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, it can handle several
times the bandwidth of an OC3.
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Multiple Backbones |
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We share the digital distribution architecture of FGC, which is comprised
of more than 25 high-speed private peering connections to major Internet
carriers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, AT&T, AOL, Best, Erols, and others.
FGC also has high-speed links to 8 public exchanges including both
MAE East and West and several NAPS. To use an analogy, the private
peering connections allow data to travel from New York to LA on a
non-stop flight, while the public exchanges require a stop over.
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Route Optimization |
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We have a large investment in BGP (Border Gate Protocol) technology,
which allows the traffic to your site to travel more efficiently by
finding the best route for data to travel. On a typical server the
traffic always takes the same route from client to server. For them,
if there is a bad node, traffic does not get through at all. Because
we use BGP protocol, different and more efficient routes are taken
between client and server depending on traffic loads and broken nodes.
This means our servers automatically look for the fastest route available.
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Low Latency/High Throughput |
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Often providers operate their networks at three to four times responsible
capacity, and as a result the corresponding transfer times reach over
300ms for each hop along the net. Our network daily average is 6.5%
of its capacity, with mid-day peak spikes reaching only 15.5% capacity.
Our transfer times range from 15 to 80ms routinely.
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Hardware and System Information |
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Each of our servers is configured with the following software configurations.
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Hot Swap Power Supplies and Drives |
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100 Base T Ethernet |
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Linux Redhat Version 6. |
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Apache Version 1.3.12 |
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Perl Version 5.006 |
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PHP Version 4.0 |
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mySQL Version 3.23 |
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Industrial-Grade Equipment for the Ultimate Performance and Reliability
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Uninterruptible Power System |
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Industrial Air Conditioners |
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Custom Web Servers |
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Force Filtered Cooling |
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Hot Swap Seagate Drives |
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Redundant Power Supplies |
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Standby Servers |
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Multiple Backbones |
