High Availability Hosting
Challenge:
Create internet services that are always open for business
Solution:
We design and implement a network of high quality components in a configuration with no single point of failure
Vorteon Online Banking configuration with security monitoring, uptime monitoring, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention.
Benefits:
- Private data protected by 2 firewall layers
- Proactively monitored and managed security
- Highly available network configuration (no single points of failure)
- Highly reliable hardware configuration (1.5 years or more between reboots)
- High quality Linux-based software systems
High Availability Network Diagram and Description
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We simplify the high availability network has to satisfy a number of needs.
Simple Reliability
- Selecting reliable hardware components. We use Intel Server Boards for the mother boards in the web and database servers and Cisco networking equipment.
- Installing reliable software components. We run Linux and often maintain uptimes greater than 400 days per machine.
- We eliminate all single points of failure from the network. Every component had a backup and a failure plan. No single component outage could cause a network outage. Even a power interruption would be localized to either the Left or Right side of the network, leaving the other side undisturbed.
Simple Security
- Simplify network access by allowing only necessary network traffic through the firewall
- An intrusion detection system on the web and database servers
- Pro-active monitoring of security mailing lists for applicable security threats
- Removed all unnecessary processes and daemons from all servers
Simple Cost Reduction
- Custom servers built with reliable components
- Configured software and network to be self-maintaining
- Proactively managed maintenance issues