Reliability

One of Merritt-Gentry's major strengths is it's dedicated World Wide Web staff. The main focus of our Web staff is to provide our hosting customers a high level of value. Our dedicated staff enables Merritt-Gentry to concentrate time, energy, and resources on developing new services and guaranteeing the robustness of our system.

In addition to the dedicated Web staff, Merritt-Gentry Virtual Web Hosting also has proven LAN stability. Merritt-Gentry's network is housed in a state-of-the-art telephony, climate-controlled, environment with full 24-hour Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS). Merritt-Gentry's web servers are connected to the internet backbone by 2 T-3s (each provide bandwidth up to 45Mbps) with redundant backup T-1s (each provides bandwidth up to 1.5 Mbps). Merritt-Gentry has multiple dedicated web servers where clients web pages are stored.

Merritt-Gentry's robust network is enhanced by the following:

• Multiple dedicated Web servers (Pentium II class processors running BSDi 3.0 and the apache web server).
• Excellent server performance (Server up-time exceeds 99.5%).
• Redundant T3 connectivity.
• Remote network monitoring.
• Frequent file backup (incremental) with full weekly backups.
• Servers housed in climate controlled site with full UPS backup.
• Merritt-Gentry's World Wide Web Staff handles all system administration of the LAN.
• Engineering expertise in updating and maintaining the LAN.
• Multiple dedicated Domain Name Servers (DNS).
• RealAudio server.
• Secure Server.