Hosting explained
Web hosting, or Internet hosting, allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website which is accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a web server they provide for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. A Web hosting company can be thought of as a type of landlord—they rent physical space on their web servers, allowing web-pages to be viewed on the Internet.
Hosting also provides an e-mail server for your domain name. This allows e-mail addresses such as, 'office
your-domain.com'.
Hosting Type
Robert Maxim provides a managed hosting service. You get your own web-server but we administrator everything to guarantee quality of service. All changes to your website content can be performed by you and are done through the website's CMS interface.
Hardware
As a customer of Robert Maxim your website will be hosted on web servers located at state of art data centers in Dallas, Texas; Washington, D.C.; or Seattle, WA.
Our web servers are at least:
- Dual Quad Core Xeon 5430 processors
- 12 GB of DDR system RAM
- 4x300GB 10,000 RPM hard drives in Raid-10 configuration
- 100 Mbps network pPorts
Software
All our servers run CentOS, an enterprise level Linux operating system.You will also benefit by having your website “served” by LiteSpeed Web Server software. LiteSpeed is used because of its outstanding performance and strong security features.
Feel confident that your site operates on a safe, secure software platform.
Network
All our data centers have the following:
- UPS & diesel generator power backup & redundancy,
- 200+ tons of AC power,
- fiber optic cable redundancy through multiple private OC-192 SONET rings,
- redundant architecture Gigabit Ethernet-based internal network, using Cisco backbone-grade equipment,
- redundant, geographically dispersed, connectivity to all of the world's major backbones.
