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Data Center
The data center building is a steel framed building with triple power feeds from the electric utility company. All major carriers (AT&T, MCI Worldcom, Level 3, Southwestern Bell, ... etc) have POPs in the building. The 22,000 square feet data center can host over 10,000 servers and is monitored by our 24x7 on-site tech staff. Our server colocation service is
designed for Web Hosters', ASPs, Internet Content Providers, E-commerce
companies and enterprises who are seeking data center space. The
world-class data center features data center infrastructure for non-stop
operations. We offer and support advanced Internet tools such as load balancing, clustering, firewalls, cache, data storage devices, ...etc.
The data center is protected by redundant Liebert indoor cooling systems and is kept at an optimal temperature. These cooling systems provide precise, reliable control of room temperature, humidity, and airflow that improves operating conditions for sensitive electronic equipment.
The data center is engineered to be
protected from fire damages. It has concrete floor, all steel ceiling,
fire proof walls, and steel framed racks. There is no flammable material
inside the data center area. The data center is equipped with pre-action fire suppression system which prevents accidental spray when there is a false fire alarm. When there is a true fire occurs such system will spray to put out the fire.
Fewer employees have access to
responsive areas of the data center and must pass through multi-point
security checks, including bio-metric readers, for data center access. The building is monitored 24x7 by security guards. The data center is monitored 24 x 7 by on-site SMC staff.
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the Internet, speed is king. Slow download pages turn your users off.
You get better return from your advertising investment when your pages
download fast. According to Boardwatch magazine, most of the
Internet's traffic is carried by a few major backbone providers such as
UUNET (MCI Worldcom), Sprint, AT&T, ...etc. To ensure our hosted web
pages get to users fast, our data center is directly linked to these
Internet backbones. Most users can reach our data center via a single
backbone which avoids the common network problem: traffic jam at the
backbone intersections.
We
only link to the world best Internet backbones such as UUNET, Sprint,
AT&T and Level 3. We purchase our backbone connections from these
top rated providers where network uptime is guaranteed. We do not
exchange traffic free with other providers at public exchange points
such as MAE-East and MAE-West. Such peering agreement has no service
quality guarantee. You often see packet loss at these public exchange
points. 
The
state-of-the-art Internet data center is engineered for high performance
and redundancy. It has rich fiber connections to all major carriers and
scalable bandwidth capacity from OC3 to 1 GIG.
Our
main data center is located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Our second
datacenter is in Kelowna BC, Canada. The city of St. Louis is at a
strategic central location in the United States which is safe from Wars,
Earthquakes, and Hurricanes. St. Louis' central location makes it an
ideal place to distribute Internet data throughout the United States and
all over the world. 
1st
Choice only uses top brand high performance reliable equipment and
servers. Our network is 100% Cisco network. We use Cisco routers and
Cisco switches. No hubs!.
We
use only up-to-date powerful servers. Unlike some low-end server hosting
companies, we do not use any Celeron, AMD and Cyrix chips. We do not use
any IDE hard drives. We use only Intel chips designed for servers. We
use only SCSI hard drives.
The
building in which our servers reside is supplied with triple power feeds
from the utility company. In the event of a power outage, the data
center is equipped with a 1500 KVA ONAN diesel generator. The generator
is tested every week. When a power outage is detected, the generator
will start automatically within 15 seconds. With one tank of gas in the
generator, it can power 15000 servers for 36 hours. Fuel can be added to
keep the network up and running indefinitely.
The
data center also uses an MGE data center Uninterruptible Power Supply
(UPS). This UPS has been installed to constantly monitor and regulate
the quality of power coming from the wall so that equipment always
receives the clean 120-volt power it was designed for.
Access
to the building can be achieved through an automatic door, which is
operated by a state-of-the-art access control system. Since all
employees have to use access codes to access to the building, a detailed
record of employee and visitor entry is maintained at all times.
