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Our Datacenter and Network
Here at Helix Servers we know that your business demands a high level of uptime, so to ensure that we can provide this we have invested alot of time and money into planning out every detail of our server network. Our network is housed in a state of the art carrier neutral facility.


Redundant Systems
 
  • All systems are backed by a Uniterruptible Power Supply and diesel generators with 72 hours of on-site fuel and guaranteed refueling contracts.
  • All racks are serviced by one or more 20 amp, 120 volt circuits to ensure that there is always enough power to the servers.
  • We have a N+1 HVAC system to sure that we keep an optimal enviroment for our servers and all our network equitment.
  • Ambient temperature is maintained at 72 degrees F with a +/- 2 degree variant and relative humidity is keept at 45% with a +/- variant of 5%.

  • Physical Security
     
  • Physical access to the data center is controlled and monitored 24 hours a day, days a week.
  • All cabinets and cages are locked.
  • We have dry pipe fire suppression systems that protect the entire data center, in the event of a fire.
  • All racks are security braced to prevent them from being knocked over no matter what happens.

  • Our Network
     
  • Multiple tier 1 providers BGP for fail over.
  • State of the art routers, switches and firewalls.
  • Fully redundant.
  • Level 3, Verio, Savvis and UUNet.

  • High End Servers
     
  • Two opteron processors.
  • 4 GB of Ram
  • 4 x 146 GB 15K RPM U320 SCSI Drives.
  • Raid 10 Configuration.
  • CentOS 5 x86_64 or Redhat ES 5 x86_64.
  • MySQL 5 or MySQL 4.

  • Before we moved to Helix Servers we could not stay up more than 12 hours at a time.

    Now we are rock solid stable and our site has grown like we never tought it could.

    The Owner
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    08.26.08
    Helix Servers put in R1Soft continuous data backup solution in place for all servers and services.
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    09.24.07
    Helix Servers put in place a new billing system to help customers keep track of invoices and easly request upgrades.
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    09.01.07
    Helix Servers has entered into a partnership agreement with Redhat to provide you with low cost use of the enterprise class Redhat server opterating system.
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