Location

TECX's world-class datacenter located in the suburb of Seattle, Washington provides industrial-grade, high-performance housing of internet servers and data warehouses. Seattle is considered by many a center of technology.  So it is the most desirable point of presence for our datacenter on the west coast.  Major institutions attest for the superb telco and electrical infrastructure.  Located in the Bothell Center, the facility houses some of the most powerful servers on the planet. 100% Uptime is guaranteed due to the buildings earthquake hardened design, environmentally controlled air/ventilation setup, multi-watt backup generators, 1500VAC uninterrupted power and sunfire subwoofer facilities.

High-Grade Core Switching

The switching center in our datacenter is by far our most state-of-the-art. Our core router is a Net Gear RO318 router with a built-in firewall that providing eight ports of full wire-speed switched 100 megabit access. This allows several nodes to be configured to route through our high-end backbone. Our second-level switching facility consists of a Dell 2025 Gigabyte switch which provides switched layer2/3 full-duplex Gigabyte ports.

Bandwidth

We have designed our backbone with extraordinary abilities to minimize distressed and over-allocated network access points to offer the most reliable and consistent data pipe available today.

Upstream bandwidth is supplied by Covad Networking with an MTTR SLA who has 155mbit direct links to all major carriers and public exchanges.  There is a
wide range of bandwidth that can be fixed or burst.
 

Our server room is maintained at a constant 65 degrees year-around.
Network, Systems and Services are monitored via Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), Webtrends and Whats-Up 24 hours per day/7 days per week/365 days a year.

Primay Web-Server Windows 2003 Server Ultra-dense High-End Dual Intel Pentium4 Xeon with 4GB RAM attached to 500Gig RAID-1 SAN Array. This Server is a workhorse.	Secondary Web-Server Windows 2003 Server "Frog on a hog" Custom Built on High-Powered AMD XP 3.0GHz Processor with 2 gigabyte of RAM
Cache Server/Backup Server Windows 2003 Server 2nd generation AMD XP 2.8GHZ w/150 RAID-10 Array.   Backup Software to Tape and DVD Disaster Recovery Software	Middleware Backend Server Windows2003 Server Dell Dual-Xeon with 4GB of RAM and 32Gig RAID-10.
	Monitoring Server Windows.Net AMD Athlon XP-Core over-clocked 3300MHz Unit with integrated full, 16-way set-associative 512KB L2 cache, 2 gigabyte of PC3000 DDR and dual SATA2 Raptors backend, water-cooled for stability.

Staff

As you can see, our datacenter in Washington is by far our most strategic and successful facility to date.

While this setup looks pretty ridiculous next to a class-A, raised floor, global datacenter (like to one we work in on a daily basis), it does provide a pretty decent environment for PC based servers that run a small company. Not to mention it was a few million buck cheaper to put together :).

It is staffed around the clock by our Robotic, Da Vinci, Black-Belt, Borg-like, Maud'Dib Systems Administrator, who provides 24x10x365 support to our infrastructure and systems.