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Star Designs Reliability and Infrastructure

If your web site wasn't important, you wouldn't have put it on the Internet. If nobody can connect to your website, it's useless. That's why using Star Designs is such a smart choice. We make sure your Web site is up and running, all day, every day. But it's not just reliable, it's blazing fast. We deliver the fastest, most reliable virtual servers available anywhere. How do we do it? Check out some of our strategies:

Redundant Internet Connections
Star Designs' systems are connected to the Internet via fully redundant, multiple T3 connections through UUNET and Sprint, as well as an OC-3 Fiber Optic link to Level (3) Communications. When our competitors claim that they're connected to the Internet through multiple T3s, look closely. Chances are, their "multiple T3s" are sold to them by a single provider, which means that if one of their routers goes down, their entire connection goes down! This is not the case at Star Designs. We have three full Transit backbone connections so that, if one goes down, the others can reroute the traffic in seconds while we restore the downed connection-all without the slightest interruption in performance.

Redundant Routers
We route traffic from our server systems to our redundant T3 connections through, you guessed it, redundant routers. We use two Cisco Series 7513 routers (people who know routers are drooling right about now), with a host of other Cisco routers, hubs, and switches taking traffic from your servers to the Internet. In plain English, that means your data is in good hands. Because if a router goes down or if a hub goes down Star Designs will stay online.

Back Up System
Star Designs backup system has the capability of holding up to 3 terabytes of online storage which will keep about a week's worth of changed data for all of our customers. Nightly backups are done for all Star Designs customers as possible.

If you have need to restore any data, please send mail to support@stardesigns.net with the following information:

The name of the file(s) including the full path to the file
The exact date of the file you want restored
The domain name and user name of your server

These backups are provided as an added service to our users. However, please be prudent in making local backups of the contents of your Web server as Star Designs will not guarantee this service. While this is a very nice feature, you never want to put the ultimate destiny of your web site in anyone else's hands (even ours). Doing so will ensure that you are in control of your own destiny by making sure that you have the capability to restore any files on your own, without depending on anyone else. The Boy Scout's motto applies to Web site management as well - 'Be Prepared!

The Bottom Line
The bottom line is this: When you buy a system from Star Designs, we're going to do everything in our power to make sure it stays online. And that's more than a promise - it's a commitment backed up by our philosophy, our plans, but most importantly, our actions. We simply refuse to slow down.

Network Map If you're interested in the layout of our network, click here for the details.

UNIX VS. NT For a comparison which will help you decide which Server Operating System is best for you, click here.