Sunday, May 20, 2012
 


Our servers are located in Level 3's Tampa data center. It is one of 40+ centers the billion-dollar corporation operates, it is hurricane rated and we share it with numerous major internet providers and large corporations, including
more than one of the largest dial-up providers in the country. Hands-on server support is available from Gerodev 24 hours per day on every day of the year. Equipment is protected from fire by industrial fire extinguishing systems and the facility is protected from unauthorized entry by a dual-stage two-factor system. The security system consists of RF card with PIN number access for external entry and palm scan biometric security for internal access to the datacenter. 24 hour security is present to watch over those with access to the equipment. Redundant heating and cooling is standard with a guaranteed 70° F ± 5° F temperature and 50% ± 5% relative humidity. Uninterruptible power supplies keep the power on to all equipment and generator back-up is on site with a minimum of 48 hours of fuel available.




The Gerodev.Com network is built around equipment from Foundry Networks, a leader in performance and reliability. Our Foundry equipment extends from the edge where all server switches have redundant power and one uplink to each of our redundant core routers. From the core, traffic continues to one of our multiple edge routers and then on to the Internet. Our redundancy allows us to lose multiple routers along the path in and out of our network while suffering no outage.

Our Internet connectivity is primarily via high-bandwidth connections from Level 3, Global Crossing and Cogent with the first two being preferred for all traffic inbound and outbound except for those directly connected to Cogent. Those two providers are the largest global network operators on the planet which allows most traffic to and from the Gerodev network to get much closer to its destination before it has to be transferred off onto a different network of possibly lower quality; this results in better performance for your visitors and customers as compared to hosting companies using Tier-2 Internet providers where the traffic ends up on someone else's network much quicker where all control is lost. Having multiple providers also gives us a competitive advantage over other hosting providers who just have one, or optionally two, connections to the same provider because if that provider has an issue anywhere on their network, it can't be avoided. We currently have a sum of 2622 Mbits/sec of active bandwidth across all providers and the ability to increase that nearly limitlessly (32+ Gbit/sec) without any hardware changes.

Our Internet connectivity is to providers who are all present in the same data center with us and ALL of them utilize multiple physical paths in to, and out of, the building for their fiber routes.