Our hosting services are provided through RapidSite's advanced network operations center, located in the U.S. It is connected to the world by three high speed DS-3 Internet connections through three separate providers: Sprint, MCI, and UUnet. This high speed connectivity combined with exceptionaly fast and reliable servers ensures your Web site will be fast and responsive, 24 hours a day, every day.

RapidSite's advanced technology features the following:

Unix Web Servers

• Silicon Graphics Origin 200 and Challenge S Servers
• 256 to 512 MB of RAM
• 4 GB System Disk
• 18 GB Striped Data Storage
• Dual 180 MHZ RISC CPUs
• Operating System - IRIX V6.4
• Web Server Software - Apache V1.2

Cisco 7505 Routers

• Internet backbone level routing

Internal Backbone

• 1.2 GB/s Cisco Catalyst 5000 switches as backbone
• Each server has dedicated 10 MB ports
• Speed to router is 100 mb/s

Connectivity

Three (3) full fiber optic T3's to multiple redundant and diverse backbones (UUnet, MCI, and Sprint), with additional redundancy / diversity from dual building entry points and multi-homed central office provisioning. Systems monitor backbone performance and automatically send IP traffic down the shortest path using the Cisco BGP4 protocol.

Backup Power

• All servers and communications equipment receive uninterrupted power via Deltec battery backup (UPS).
• Backup generator can power the entire complex and all critical equipment.

Backup Storage

All sites are backed-up daily to a 40 TB (terabyte) robotic tape backup system by Storage Technologies which employs the latest DLT4 technology.

 

Star Account

The Star Plan is designed for low to average traffic sites, including corporate presence sites and home pages for individuals and businesses. It includes options for the Appleget Associates Self Maintaining Sites, CGI scripting support and more. This plan is a very cost effective way to put a business on the Internet.

Features:

• 1Domain name registration (fees apply *)
• 3000 MB/mo. data transfer
• 20 MB disk storage space
• e-mail forwarding
• Multiple T3 fiber optic connections to the Internet, on diverse backbones. (Each T3 line carries up to 45 Mb/s of data!)
• High performance web servers
• Uninterruptible power, with a 60,000 watt backup generator
• Controllable anonymous FTP
• Unlimited updates via your own FTP account or the Browser based Manager
• Custom CGI script support via your own cgi-local directory
• An account Control Panel, accessed via the Web, that gives you 24 hour a day access to the most important administrative aspects of your sites, including password protection, FTP access, and more.
• Unlimited e-mail forwarding to a default address
• Detailed web usage statistics.

All Plans below include:

Domain name registration (fees apply)
Microsoft® FrontPage® server extensions (if requested on Professional plan and up)
Ability to have multiple domain names point to same account (Domain Pointers)
Unlimited updates via your own FTP account
Multiple T3 fiber optic connections to the Internet, on diverse backbones. (Each T3 line carries up to 45 Mb/s of data!)
High performance web servers
Uninterruptible power, with a 60,000 watt backup generator
An account Control Panel, accessed via the Web, that gives you 24 hour a day access to the most important administrative aspects of your sites, including password protection, e-mail accounts, FTP access, and more.
Configurable, unlimited e-mail forwarding to a default address
Detailed web usage statistics, plus access to the raw log files

Professional Plan

The Professional Plan is designed for low to average traffic business sites, including corporate presence sites and home pages for individuals and businesses. It includes all of the features of the Personal Plan, plus increased disk space and data transfer limits, as well as Microsoft FrontPage server extensions, CGI scripting support, a TrueSpeech server, and more. This plan is a very cost effective way to put a business on the Internet.

Features:

8,000 MB/mo. data transfer
225 MB disk storage space
20 Specific e-mail forwarding addresses
20 autoresponders
21 POP3 accounts
Controllable anonymous FTP
Custom CGI script support via your own cgi-local directory
TrueSpeech® server support included (for real-time audio)
Excite!® search engine support
Volano Chat real time chat system

 

Corporate Plan

The Corporate Plan is designed for medium traffic corporate presence sites and entry level commerce sites. It includes all of the features of the Professional Plan, plus increased disk space and data transfer limits, as well as access to our SSL and mSQL servers, CyberCash support, and a shopping cart program.

Features:

10,500 MB/month data transfer
275 MB disk storage space
30 specific e-mail forwarding addresses
30 autoresponders
31 POP3 e-mail accounts
Controllable anonymous FTP
Custom CGI script support via your own cgi-local directory
TrueSpeech® server support included (for real-time audio)
Excite!® search engine support
RealAudio® and RealVideo® server
Access to our SSL secure server (with or without your own certificate)
Access to our mSQL database server and utilities
CyberCash® support
Shopping cart program
Volano Chat real time chat system

 

Commercial Plan

The Commercial Plan is designed for high traffic corporate presence sites and medium traffic commerce sites. It includes all of the features of the Corporate Plan, with increased disk space and data transfer limits.

Features:

13.0500 MB/month data transfer
175 MB disk storage space
40 specific e-mail forwarding addresses
40 autoresponders
41 POP3 e-mail accounts
Controllable anonymous FTP
Custom CGI script support via your own cgi-local directory
TrueSpeech® server support included (for real-time audio)
Excite!® search engine support
RealAudio® and RealVideo® server
Access to our SSL secure server (with or without your own certificate)
Access to our mSQL database server and utilities
CyberCash® support
Shopping cart program
Volano Chat real time chat system