AAWOL Design.com - Hosting with DATAPIPE

Web Hosting with our Internet Partner

DataPipe is a leading provider of web hosting and managed application services for AAWOL Design's clients on the Internet. Our goal is to help AAWOL Design's clients focus on their core competencies by providing them with outstanding levels of managed services, rock solid network reliability and unlimited scalability across a variety of technologies, applications and operating systems. Technology is the foundation, but people are the difference. Our friendly support staff work hard to provide AAWOL Design's clients with great service.

You're probably asking yourself, "why does AAWOL Design work with DataPipe?"
There are a lot of hosting companies out there, who are these guys?

Before we host your site, we want you to know what we have invested in.
Our world-class facilities feature raised floors, a temperature & humidity controlled environment with HVAC temperature control systems, with separate cooling zones & seismically braced racks. They offer a wide range of physical security features, including state-of-the-art smoke detection and fire suppression systems, motion sensors, & 24x7 secured access, as well as video camera surveillance & security breach alarms. Within these facilities, DataPipe delivers high levels of reliability through a number of redundant subsystems, such as multiple fiber trunks from multiple sources, fully redundant power on the premises, and multiple backup generators.

	We have invested in the best available bandwidth.
	We have invested in the redundancy of our systems and bandwidth.
	We have invested in proven, reliable, software and hardware.
	We have invested in a team of bright, dedicated people who really want to see you succeed.
	24 x 7 x 365 system and network monitoring
	24 x 7 x 365 support
	Temperature and humidity controlled environment
	Strictly controlled physical access
	Sophisticated computerized access control system
	Performance, utilization, and availability reporting
	Strictly enforced security policies
	Redundant UPS power for hosted systems and network equipment
	Redundant Backup generators

We have invested in the philosophy that personal service and person to person interaction are not replaced by technology, but rather enhanced by it.

	Speed, it's part of everything we do. Every server, every system, every piece of hardware is chosen & implemented with speed in mind. We continually invest in the latest proven technology to ensure that your site is as fast as it can be! .
	Powered by an OC-192 (10 Gigabits per second) nationwide backbone, we're able to provide lightning fast connectivity. Utilizing direct access to each of the major backbone providers, powered by a unique network infrastructure & proprietary routing technology, we can deliver you unsurpassed speed & reliability.
	Intelligent Routing - BGP performs interdomain routing in Transmission-Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networks. BGP is a gateway protocol, which means that it performs routing between multiple autonomous systems or domains and exchanges routing and reachability information with other BGP systems. We utilize BGP, to provide intelligent, fail-safe routing. When one of our providers has network issues which may cause connections to slow down, we route your customers to the fastest available connection, to ensure maximum connection speed and virtually eliminate down time.

Rock Solid Infrastructure

Fully Managed Network

Fully Redundant, multiple connections to diverse backbones for uninterrupted bandwidth

Fully Redundant Essential Hardware, including Cisco and Juniper Routers, Foundry Load Balancers and Cisco & Extreme Switches

Gigabit Fiber Optic Infrastructure
State of the Art DataCenter - Our world-class facilities feature raised floors, HVAC temperature control systems with separate cooling zones, and seismically braced racks. They offer a wide range of physical security features, including state-of-the-art smoke detection and fire suppression systems, motion sensors, and 24x7 secured access, as well as video camera surveillance and security breach alarms. Within these facilities, DataPipe delivers high levels of reliability through a number of redundant subsystems, such as multiple fiber trunks from multiple sources, fully redundant power on the premises, and multiple backup generators.

Easy scalability and bandwidth on demand

Network Performance Guarantee

	Under Utilized Bandwidth. We do not try to get by or keep our costs low by pushing our bandwidth to the limit. Even during peak usage more than 70% of our bandwidth is available and unused. That means speed, speed & more speed for your site!
	This Powerful Infrastructure enables us to support bandwidth-intensive applications such as electronic commerce and application service hosting. We offer you a single-source for end-to-end Internet solutions with expert technical staff monitoring customer applications and equipment 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Intelligent Routing - BGP -Border Gateway Protocol
As with any routing protocol, BGP maintains routing tables, transmits routing updates, and bases routing decisions on routing metrics. The primary function of a BGP system is to exchange network-reachability information, including information about the list of autonomous system paths, with other BGP systems. This information can be used to construct a graph of autonomous system connectivity from which routing loops can be pruned and with which autonomous system-level policy decisions can be enforced.

Each BGP router maintains a routing table that lists all feasible paths to a particular network. The router does not refresh the routing table, however. Instead, routing information received from peer routers is retained until an incremental update is received. BGP devices exchange routing information upon initial data exchange and after incremental updates. When a router first connects to the network, BGP routers exchange their entire BGP routing tables. Similarly, when the routing table changes, routers send the portion of their routing table that has changed. BGP routers do not send regularly scheduled routing updates, and BGP routing updates advertise only the optimal path to a network. BGP uses a single routing metric to determine the best path to a given network. This metric consists of an arbitrary unit number that specifies the degree of preference of a particular link. The BGP metric typically is assigned to each link by the network administrator.

The value assigned to a link can be based on any number of criteria, including the number of autonomous systems through which the path passes, stability, speed, delay, or cost. We ulitize BGP, to provide intelligent, failsafe routing. When one of our providers has network issues which may cause connections to slow down, we route AAWOL Design's clients to the fastest available connection, to ensure maximum connection speed and virtually eliminate down time.