AmeriHosting is directly connected to 9 Tier-1 providers,
including Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, Level(3), Sprint, Cable &
Wireless, Digex, NTT/Verio, and Global Crossing providing
the best speed and redundancy possible. Our Intelligent
Routing Technology selects the best path out of 9 major
backbones and gets your data get from point A to point B
in the fastest, most reliable, and least-congested path
possible.
Machine Uptime Monitor
Our software pings your server every minute to
make sure that the box is accessible from within our
network as well as from outside our network. If the server
cannot be pinged, the software will send an e-mail and
page our system engineers immediately.
Web Server Monitor
One of our tools monitors the Apache web server on a one
minute interval to ensure that it is up and serving pages.
Every minute, we request a page from the http daemon. If
it does not respond, our software will flag it and test it
next time through. After 3 attempts the tool executes a
reload on the http daemon. Then a minute later it will
request a page again. If there is still no response, after
one more attempt, a page is sent to our support to
manually look into the situation. This software works to
make sure that your server is serving pages 24/7.
Memory Monitor
This monitoring tool will make sure that no process takes
up more than a certain percentage of your machines’
available memory. If a process consumes more than the
maximum allotment, it will be temporarily killed off and
the situation will be reported to our NOC staff.
Port Monitor
We actively monitor all commonly used ports, not only to
make sure that they are open, but to verify that they are
actually passing data. The script does this by asking for
data. if the port does not respond, it will be restarted
by the monitoring tool.
Network-Wide Firewalls
Firewalls secure servers
from possible vulnerabilities and attacks. Our entire
network is secured through a
circuit level Juniper/Netscreen
firewall. The Juniper Networks
Firewall / IPSec VPN security
devices are purpose-built to
perform essential security
functions. These integrated
devices combine a Stateful
Inspection firewall with Deep
Inspection technology for
application-level protection,
IPSec virtual private networking (VPN)
capabilities, and denial of
service (DoS) mitigation
functions.
Automated Security Monitoring
AmeriHosting provides a full range of security services
to ensure the safety and integrity of mission-critical
data. As more businesses harness the power of the web,
reliable and secure public communication is an
ever-increasing need. We proactively monitor system
processes on each server as well as across our entire
network. These monitoring programs are designed to halt
and report all intrusions to the system and provide our
customers with the peace of mind they need to conduct
secure business transactions from your servers.
