About Our Network & Infrastructure |
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Data Security
Unlike at some other data centers
which aggregate client routing through hubs, our internal network is on
a dedicated Ethernet segment. This protects the confidentiality of
traffic within the data center itself. |
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Multiple
Internet Gateways
Our dedicated segment is connected to
two custom routers on a core Cisco network. These routers provide the
gateways to the machines on our internal network, and employ BGP to
advertise the IP space assigned. The system ensures traffic is routed
via the most appropriate link. Routing over multiple links can be
tailored to effectively facilitate traffic modeling based on the
business factors of each bandwidth provider. |
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BGP4 Routing
The network runs the Border
Gateway Protocol (BGP4) for best case routing. Our entirely switched,
Cisco powered network employs HSRP (N+1 hot fail over) to ensure that
data can be routed even in the event of a router fail over. The BGP4
protocol is a standard that allows for the evaluation of each packet of
information sent out from the network. Because of our redundant network
architecture, packets may be sent via alternative routes even if they
are being delivered to the same end user! This also allows for packets
to be redirected via another route if network congestion on the public
Internet becomes overwhelming. |
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Networking
The routers are connected to each switch
with redundant links , and core switches are connected together with
dual gigabit links (Fiber Optic) as well as back up Ethernet trunk
links. All switches throughout our Data Centre are connected with
redundant uplinks which employ instant failover in the event of cable
failure. All our networking equipment is Cisco enterprise level
hardware. |
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Peering
ParaFX.com employs redundant ISP
links to our Data Centre. ParaFX.com only uses upstream providers
that are peered in TorIX (The Toronto Internet Exchange) This
provides advantage routing among leading ISPs for enhanced speed,
performance and redundancy. Combining our core connectivity
and the TorIX we offer greater service level for connectivity |
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Services
Through construction of our Data Centre,
there are many built in Internet Services that can be used to compliment
a clients' server. Client servers can make use of existing
services to conserve resources locally to a single task. |
Clients can have a custom setup that allows
them to use existing infrastructure components such as:
- Redundant Name Servers (DNS Servers)
- Redundant Load Balanced Mail Servers
- Caching Name Servers
- Switched Redundant Network Backbone
- Load Balancers (Cisco Local Directors)
- Redundant RAID Storage Arrays
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Our
Network Operations Centre offers the following features:
- 24/7 Security
monitoring including intrusion detection, instant breach alarm, and
temperature monitoring
- UPS Power Backup
- 24 hour monitoring for
server and service uptime, monitored from 3 different points
- HVAC Environmental
System (Heating and Ventilation Air Conditioning)
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Scale
to an unlimited number of domains on redundant servers
ParaFX.com architecture and
infrastructure was designed and built from the ground up to scale to an
unlimited number of domains. These domains are hosted on multiple
redundant servers, which are clustered using load balancing hardware. |
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Network
Appliance filers assure speed and data integrity
Data integrity and speed are assured
by multiple Network Appliance Filers using RAID technology, as well as
fiber optic connections between our farms and the data storage unit. The
systems are continuously monitored for reliability and performance by
our NOC support staff. The data center is protected through electrical
power backup, independent air conditioning units and physical security
measures. |
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Manage
your DNS Pointers with SMART DNS
ParaFX.com offers a unique
level of managing your domain name. We offer our SMART DNS
service. This allows you to create custom pointers for your domain name through
a web based interface. |
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