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Product Add-on Descriptions:

Managed Backup – Weekly full, daily incremental (changes since last full)
backup of all data in /home and /usr/local/mysql/data on server.  
Includes one full restoration per month per server.  $119/mo.

Managed Backup Plus – Managed Backup service plus weekly full backup taken
offsite once per week.  $149/mo.

AlaGuard – Unparalleled Managed Service, including complete monitoring and
correction of essential services such as ports and resources using our
proprietary monitoring software, and when necessary, with full support of our
Professional Systems Administrators and support personnel.  Also includes
ongoing upgrades of included software such as PHP, Perl, MySQL, Apache,
Sendmail, etc.  $129/mo.

Additional Hard Drives – Additional 18GB SCSI Hard Drives are available for
mid and high end configuration solutions.  

Technology Add-on Descriptions: *

Sun Java System Active Server Pages 4.0 support Host .asp (Active Server
Pages) sites. Accounts can be automatically enabled for ASP through the
Control Panel.

Tomcat Java Server Pages support Host .jsp (Java Server Pages) sites.  

Macromedia Cold Fusion MX support Host .cfm (Cold Fusion) sites.

* Only one of the ASP, JSP, or Cold Fusion MX options can be added per server.
** A Host Solution ordered with ASP, JSP, or Cold Fusion MX will have a
higher setup fee.
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Technical Overview

Plug into real power at our Data Center
DomainMasters recognizes that downtime is not an option for your servers. We
invest heavily in hardware and facilities to ensure that our clients are up
and running on the Internet 24x7.

Our network operations center boasts:

Over 5,000 Square Feet of raised flooring
Protected by Pre-Action Fire Sprinkler and Halon System

Uninterruptible Power System
In the unlikely event of a power outage and to protect against power surges,
DomainMasters is fully prepared and equipped to maintain uninterruptible
power.
To guard against any disruptions, we rely on the following essential elements:

360 KVA of UPS/PDU Systems
Facility built on extensive BGE 3 tier redundant power grid system

Industrial-Grade Cooling
DomainMasters data center is monitored 24x7 by ADT's state-of-the-art
temperature sensors. Air temperature is maintained at an optimal 65 degrees
Fahrenheit. Large fans pull filtered air into each server's protective case,
ensuring that dust and particles remain outside the server.
We have:

32.5 tons of chilled water cooling
40 tons of air chilled cooling
Liebert industrial air conditioners

Web Servers
DomainMasters is pleased to offer our customers these state-of-the-art Web
servers:

IBM, White boxes, Custom Built Boxes
All Intel-Based Processors
1U and RAID Servers
Dual Xeon Dell Servers

Connected to Three Internet Backbones
Whatever your bandwidth needs may be, DomainMasters has the scalability to
meet them. DomainMasters has three Tier One Providers. If one experiences
problems, we can route traffic to another. Each Provider sources an OC3 or
higher connection with multiple routes.
Our Providers are:

AT&T
Qwest
Global Crossing

Routers & Switches
The following high-performance routers and switches boost productivity and
eliminate inefficiency:

Foundry NetIron Switches
Redundant Cisco 7500 Routers and 5500 switches

Backup and Recovery
These tools allow DomainMasters to diagnose any problem that could impede
your business and restore data within minutes instead of hours:

Exabyte Mammouth II 200 Tape Cartridge Library
Backup Express Recovery Software
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AlaGuard Security Overview

Automated Nonstop Security, Maintenance and Upgrades
AlaGuard is a comprehensive security, maintenance, and upgrade service
offered to DomainMasters clients. It is a combination of software and human
manpower that has been a behind the scenes savior of our clients servers
since 1997. Many of the items that AlaGuard manages would take precious hours
out of your day if you had to deal with them yourself or be very expensive
when handed over to an employee. Some issues could take hours or days to
rectify.

AlaGuard Benefits:
· Stops Hackers
· Manages dozens of issues you never even know about
· Servers stay at peak performance
· Eliminates the need for expensive technical employees
· Eliminates the added costs that these problems would incur

DomainMasters network security is a world-class operation, and we take the
same pride in our security concerns for your servers. AlaGuard is an
extensive security program that ensures total and complete protection for you
and your customers. Not only will AlaGuard give you the piece of mind you
need when dealing with the online world, but it will also allow you to
concentrate on growing your business through sales and marketing; knowing
that all your data is being watched and monitored 24 hours a day.

AlaGuard is comprised of 3 main programs. All run separately of each other,
but work together to give you the highest level of security, monitoring, and
updates that you have come to expect when running your business.


Proactive PortStarter
Your server “talks” to the outside world via ports. These ports are the only
way in and out of your server, so they are an extremely integral part of your
online presence. AlaGuard monitors these ports, checking to make sure they
are available to you, your end-users, and any legitimate outside consumer.
This port monitoring is constant. If any port is closed, the Proactive
PortStarter follows an algorithm to decide exactly why the port is closed. It
automatically takes proactive steps to stabilize the box and reset the ports.
The algorithm is so smart that it knows when it is in over its head and when
to send the diagnosis to a support person to intervene. ProActive PortStarter
can monitor any ports that you need monitored. The following ports are on by
default as they are crucial to your day to day operations and are monitored
closely:

Port  Service

21   FTP

22   SSH

25   Sendmail

53   DNS/Bind

80   HTTP/Apache

110  POP3

443  HTTPS/Secure Apache

995  SPOP (secure mail POP)

3306 MySql


Server Stabilizer
This application will monitor all processes running on your server and react
accordingly, so as to keep your server running efficiently and securely. It
will find runaway processes, which could potentially “lock up” your server,
and kill those processes. It will monitor CPU time, hack attempts are located
and killed, it will find scripts that may be harmful to your server’s
operations, and is also able to reboot the server if necessary.

AlaGuard also includes anti-spam tools that help alleviate the hassles of
fighting these unwanted emails. AlaGuard will scan and locate known spamware
that may be running on your system, it will find CGI scripts that contribute
to the spam dilemma, and can even find spamming tools embedded in html!

Server Updates
Nothing keeps your server more stable and secure than keeping the software
and Operating System up to date. In the AlaGuard program, engineers work
diligently to assess the stability of new software releases and security
patches. Frequently, senior staff compiles their own patches and enhancements
to open source software. These enhancements are tested by our team of seven
Quality Control Engineers on the DomainMasters test network.

After being fully tested and qualified, new software releases and patches are
installed on any server in the AlaGuard program.

AlaGuard is set by default to automatically update the following:

· Apache (Secure and regular)
· MySql
· Perl
· PHP
· Sendmail
· FTP
· Linux RedHat Operating System
· Linux RedHat Kernel
· SSH
· FrontPage Extensions

These updates are vital to the survival of your business. Keeping up with the
rapidly changing technology that drives this sector can be made easier with
AlaGuard.

With DomainMasters, you will always have access to our world-class Customer
Support, our System Administration Team, and our Network Operations Center
Department, but AlaGuard is the “Twelfth Man” working behind the scenes to
help you build and secure your business.
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A Comprehensive Web Hosting Solution, Out-Sourced Systems Administration and Monitoring.

When your web hosting solutions are powered by DomainMasters, you never have
to concern yourself with developing, maintaining or upgrading the operating
system on your servers. That's because DomainMasters has a round-the-clock
staff of head-of-class, highly skilled system administrators, network
security specialists and hardware technicians. It is all in place, right now,
to ensure that your virtual web hosting solutions are up and running on a
secure, stable, high performance platform.

In addition, DomainMasters proactively monitors the servers housing our
clients' web sites to ensure optimal performance. Remember, system
administration is automatic for you and your virtual web hosting solutions.
When you are assured of a fast, secure and reliable hosting environment, you
can concentrate all the more on growing your business.

DomainMasters has built system monitoring scripts into the operating system
of each server on the network. These scripts are designed to monitor, report
and fix various system processes according to a regiment of criteria. With
the direction of the DomainMasters data center staff, operating a secure,
stable and reliable web server has never been easier.

The following describes some of the monitors and the back-up procedures that
proactively are performed on your server:

Automated Machine Uptime Monitor
DomainMasters operates scripts that ping the servers every few minutes to
make sure that each server is accessible from within and outside our network.
If the server cannot be pinged, the script pages our system engineers
immediately for rapid correction.

Automated Web Serving Monitor
Our tools monitor the Apache web server to ensure that it is up and serving
pages. Every two minutes, we send a test page to the http daemon. If it does
not respond, our script will reload the daemon. Then two minutes later, it
will send a test page again. If there is still no response, then the
reload/test scenario repeats itself. After two attempts, a technician is
contacted to take the remedial steps needed to make sure that servers are
fully operational.

Automated Disk Space Monitor
DomainMasters system automatically monitors disk space usage through a script
that checks the free space on your hard drive. If your available hard drive
space reaches a dangerously low level, you and our data center staff are
notified via e-mail. This is to make sure that your drive never fills up and
brings your server down.

Automated Memory Monitor
This monitor makes sure that no process takes up more than a certain
percentage of your available memory. If a process consumes more than the
maximum allotment, it is temporarily killed off and the situation is reported
to our data center staff. This is especially helpful when hosting high volume
virtual domains.

Automated Port Monitor
DomainMasters actively monitors all commonly used ports to make sure that
they are open and to verify that they are actually passing data. The script
does this by requesting data. If the port does not respond, it is restarted
by the monitoring tool.

Automated External Monitor
All of our servers and our network are monitored externally. In addition to
the internal scripts described above, we use off-network servers to provide
corrective action, notification and coverage for maximum protection of
service delivery. Using these off-site machines gives us the ultimate
guarantee that we can provide the uptime and reliability promised to our
clients.

Automated Back-up
DomainMasters executes server-wide system backups to allow us to recover a
server in the event of a failure (hardware, user or software related).
 

 

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