Hosting

Cirkadia offers world-class secure and reliable web, application and database hosting to its clients. We have selected an outstanding service that boasts the following features:

  • one of only five IBM-certified data centers in the US
  • Windows 2003 Server
  • SQL Server 2000 with Reporting Services
  • IIS 6.0
  • .Net Framework 2.0 & 1.1
  • SSL/Secure HTTP
  • customizable server-side Junk Mail filtering
  • proactive 24x7x365 support
  • guaranteed 99.93% uptime
  • dual Xeon Dell Servers with SCSI RAID-5
  • gigabit bandwidth to the Internet backbone
  • multiple and diverse Internet backbone connections
  • redundant, high-performance technology throughout
  • served by two separate power grids
  • power conditioning and battery backup
  • diesel generator with contracts for fuel delivery
  • advanced (and environmentally safe) fire suppression
  • concrete, bunker-like building designed to withstand natural disasters
  • outside earthquake zones
  • above 100 year flood plane
  • close to utility and emergency services

The service has been proven in real life to support extremely high traffic - approx 10 million hits per pay sustained for 4 days straight, whilst maintaining millisecond response times. Sustained bandwidth utilization was equivalent to 14 T1 lines, peaking at about 50 T1s..!!

Using a fully-managed service allows us to focus on what we do best, while leveraging economies of scale from our specialist providers. We see this as a logical partnership that allows us to provide the best of all possible services to our clients.