Our Web Site Hosting and Maintenance Solutions Ensure Reliability and Top Performance Hosting and Management Services choose a topic: Web Site Hosting E-Mail and Messaging Hosting With Dogwood Productions Dogwood Productions provides full hosting services for web sites, FTP sites, and remote databases through its partnership with pair Networks. The servers provide secure, reliable hosting with minimal downtime, and are engineered to easily support the largest spikes in network traffic without missing a beat. Dogwood's servers are located in pair's custom-built shared internet datacenter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hosting Features: World Class Network Local network is highly optimized, fully switched and collision-free External connections are DS-3 and OC-3c lines to multiple diverse backbone providers Optimal route selection and automatic failover in the event of external network outages Delivers more than 90% of outgoing traffic through private peering points, avoiding congested public exchanges and increasing response time and throughouput to all clients Servers Custom-built Intel Pentium and AMD Athlon servers, with extensive spares on site for upgrades or replacements FreeBSD Unix, tuned for reliability and continually hardened against security exploits. A direct descendant of BSD UNIX, FreeBSD is fully open source, and is actively maintained and developed. Server and network uptime well in excess of 99.9% Datacenter Closed datacenter with physical access restricted to authorized personnel only 24x7 Onsite staff monitoring equipment Redundant climate control with automatic failover Expandable redundant uninterruptible power system; 750,000 watt capacity backup standy generator can provide power indefinitely in the case of an outage Fire suppression system provides coverage to entire datacenter Email and Messaging Solutions: In addition to providing hosting solutions for your net-accessible data, Dogwood Productions also provides a full range of email messaging solutions for your important communications. Email is a critical service for internet users today. When email is down, important messages between employees or from clients may be lost or delayed. In fact, the first action that 70% of Internet users take after they log onto a network is to check their email accounts. Through a partnership with Critical Path, Dogwood Productions Hosted Email provides you with the following benefits: Secure, fail-safe email Available and monitored twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week 99.5% uptime for email services Web-based email interface Accessible world-wide from any web browser Gives access to all incoming folders Server-side filtering of incoming messages Allows one to set a vacation, or away, message that automatically responds when you are away for an extended period Consolidates your other email accounts, allowing you to check other POP accounts from one, central web location Allows you to change your password directly from the web interface for increased security Server-side spam and virus filtering available as an option Multiple data centers located on both east and west coasts, providing server redundancy and fail over capability Private peering with ISPs and backbone providers; multiple high-speed connection provide redundancy in the case of network outages Infrastructure developed to scale to tens of millions of mailboxes Platform runs on Sun UE4000s using Oracle database software back to top