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DS5000.com operates out of the of the state-of-the-art GNAX datacenter located in Atlanta, Georgia. The building is one of the premier telecom facilities in the state offering hardened infrastructure and access to the largest and best backbones. The facility offers complete redundancy in power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity, and security. DS5000.com has an offering to fit any need. Our product offerings include private caged suites, cabinets, half-cabinets, tri-cabinets, and rack space by the Unit.

The facility sits atop multiple power grids driven by Georgia Power which were fortified for the 1996 Olympics. In fact this is the grid that is restored first in the event of power outage in Atlanta and is the most reliable grid in the state of Georgia. The building is connected via multiple entry vaults on different substations and our facility is in fact connected to multiple buses within the building.

There are also multiple redundant Liebert air systems and pumps and MGE Comet UPS battery backup power and onsite permanent generator power. Fire suppression includes a pre-action dry pipe system that is monitored by our staff as well as the 24 hour building security staff and is hooked into the central alarm facility.

Security is also a concern for DS5000.com and our customers so all facilities are multi stage key card access and then hand geometry readers to prevent card key theft. DS5000.com also has a state of the art CCTV recorded 24x7 with certain cameras available to our customers via the Internet for their own monitoring for maximum security. All visitors to the datacenters must check in and out of the facility. The goal is to provide maximum redundancy in every facet of the datacenter environment to facilitate 100% uptime for your entire hosting infrastructure.

Our data center is staffed 24x7 365 days a year with onsite technicians to ensure server and data center support.

»Network Infrastructure

GNAX network architecture is a complete Cisco Network. We utilize fully redundant Cisco 6509 routers with the latest SupII/MFSCII cards with 30 mm pps throughput (redundant routers and redundant cards within the router) at the core and state of the art 3550 L3 switch / routers as aggregation routers. To further maximize redundancy we utilize distributed 2924 XL EN switches to ensure that single chassis failure will have minimum downtime effects on our servers - unlike many of our competition who aggregate hundreds of servers in a single chassis based switch like the 6500 or 5500 which if it fails its CPU or power - it takes down many customers This approach gives us maximum power failure protection and switch failure protection to distribute the load and risk.

We also utilize VLANS to prevent customer IP space hijacking and conflicts. By keeping our network as flat as possible - we minimize route convergence and latency in the backbone and speed the packets to the best provider through BGP4 on the core.

Our network is fully meshed and redundant with 6 backbone providers. Our current network consists Gigabit links to Abovenet, Allegiance, Aleron, Global Crossing, IBIS7, and Telia. By having less providers with a larger burst capacity we are able to handle DoS attacks better than many of our competitors that have chosen many smaller pipes. This is because a DoS attack will many times concentrate itself on one inbound or outbound connection and can swamp it if it is only a 100 meg or an oc3. We do not provision less than GIG circuits on the backbone. It also allows us plenty of room to fail back and forth from provider to provider without regards to where the traffic is going to prefer since any one of our links has far sufficient size to handle all of our traffic.

We actively monitor our routers for key factors including temperature, CPU and memory utilization and monitor our connections for transit latency and uptime. We are notified immediately in the event of a process going out of tolerance or an outage through our automated systems which allows us to respond quickly with corrective action.

We also monitor all our servers in the data center for uptime and immediately notified in the event of an outage on the server.

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