Aug, 2001 : C I Host Invests Half Million Into Network Upgrades
📅 - Despite a sluggish overall economy and the need to battle against the monthly waves of Code Red Virus onslaughts, C I Host (cihost.com 👉 Total Reviews: 17
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The heavy infusion of capital by C I Host to upgrade its technology andservices at the same time it is opening new data centers signals itsconfidence in the Internet industry.
''We continue to grow and are bigger and better than ever,'' saidChristopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. ''We can't stop improving ourservices just because some hacker someplace is determined to undermine thehealth of our industry.''
Over the past six months, C I Host has:
Upgraded all shared hosting servers to Dual 1 GHz with 1 Gb of RAM,making the machines faster and better equipped to handle client demands.Upgraded the firewall systems with load balanced firewalls capableof handling 800 Mb of sustained traffic and up to 50 million concurrentconnections.Load-balanced network's routers and firewalls on 4 F5 BIP-IPEnterprises devices, allowing for 99.999% uptime on core routing gear.Added a fourth nameserver off-site and on a different IP block andnetwork, located at the Los Angeles data center and designed to make C IHost's network more resistant to hacker and DoS attacks.Installed an additional 100 tons of N+1 redundancy air conditioningto keep clients' servers cool and running smoothly.
In early September, C I Host will upgrade two more bandwidth circuits to OC3, Sprint and Global Crossing, giving the network a maximum capacity of 645Megabits of bandwidth, up from the current 425 Megabits. C I Host's additionof the fourth nameserver is especially important in foiling hacker attacks,according to Stuart Bailey, founder and CTO of InfoBlox, Inc., based inEvanston, Illinois. InfoBlox makes high performance domain name servers thatprovide high reliability and performance but are simple to manage.
''The kind of architecture C I Host is creating takes away a single point offailure,'' Bailey said. ''If one segment of the network is attacked or goesdown, you protect your entire network from a myriad of security issues.Without it, you are vulnerable to attack.''
In addition, C I Host has hired 25 new employees in its call center toreduce on-hold and response times by as much as 25 percent. The Bedfordfacility has been expanded by 5,000 square feet to keep up with clientdemand; the Los Angeles center opened in May and the London Center is due toopen in December.
''Our clients will benefit from our improvements by having increased speed,protection and reliability,'' said Jason McCarthy, IT operations manager.''The upgrades will be seamless, our clients won't notice anything, justthat their web site, email and e-commerce are all up and running faster thanever.''
C I Host continues to add about 5,200 new clients each month and hasconsistently maintained an industry-low churn rate of 4 percent. In July,however, the churn rate hit 6 percent due to an extra 250 clients who leftdue to slowdowns caused by the Code Red virus attack. Even though C I Hostwas one of the few companies that completely patched its servers againstCode Red, it was affected because even patched servers are slowed by CodeRed as infected computers constantly send signals to healthy computers,looking for possible vulnerabilities.
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The heavy infusion of capital by C I Host to upgrade its technology andservices at the same time it is opening new data centers signals itsconfidence in the Internet industry.
''We continue to grow and are bigger and better than ever,'' saidChristopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. ''We can't stop improving ourservices just because some hacker someplace is determined to undermine thehealth of our industry.''
Over the past six months, C I Host has:
Upgraded all shared hosting servers to Dual 1 GHz with 1 Gb of RAM,making the machines faster and better equipped to handle client demands.Upgraded the firewall systems with load balanced firewalls capableof handling 800 Mb of sustained traffic and up to 50 million concurrentconnections.Load-balanced network's routers and firewalls on 4 F5 BIP-IPEnterprises devices, allowing for 99.999% uptime on core routing gear.Added a fourth nameserver off-site and on a different IP block andnetwork, located at the Los Angeles data center and designed to make C IHost's network more resistant to hacker and DoS attacks.Installed an additional 100 tons of N+1 redundancy air conditioningto keep clients' servers cool and running smoothly.
In early September, C I Host will upgrade two more bandwidth circuits to OC3, Sprint and Global Crossing, giving the network a maximum capacity of 645Megabits of bandwidth, up from the current 425 Megabits. C I Host's additionof the fourth nameserver is especially important in foiling hacker attacks,according to Stuart Bailey, founder and CTO of InfoBlox, Inc., based inEvanston, Illinois. InfoBlox makes high performance domain name servers thatprovide high reliability and performance but are simple to manage.
''The kind of architecture C I Host is creating takes away a single point offailure,'' Bailey said. ''If one segment of the network is attacked or goesdown, you protect your entire network from a myriad of security issues.Without it, you are vulnerable to attack.''
In addition, C I Host has hired 25 new employees in its call center toreduce on-hold and response times by as much as 25 percent. The Bedfordfacility has been expanded by 5,000 square feet to keep up with clientdemand; the Los Angeles center opened in May and the London Center is due toopen in December.
''Our clients will benefit from our improvements by having increased speed,protection and reliability,'' said Jason McCarthy, IT operations manager.''The upgrades will be seamless, our clients won't notice anything, justthat their web site, email and e-commerce are all up and running faster thanever.''
C I Host continues to add about 5,200 new clients each month and hasconsistently maintained an industry-low churn rate of 4 percent. In July,however, the churn rate hit 6 percent due to an extra 250 clients who leftdue to slowdowns caused by the Code Red virus attack. Even though C I Hostwas one of the few companies that completely patched its servers againstCode Red, it was affected because even patched servers are slowed by CodeRed as infected computers constantly send signals to healthy computers,looking for possible vulnerabilities.
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