| 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,
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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.