Our Network

We are proud of our high speed connections, in fact one of our most frequent compliments from our customers is how fast their sites load... read on and you will see why.

We are proud to announce that effective June 1999, all of our Web hosting Clientele will be hosted in our new facility located in Baltimore, Maryland near Washington DC.

We have had tremendous growth due to our great value and customer service. Add the best equipment and network connectivity in the entire industry and you have quite a product to offer.

DomainMasters.NET makes your web hosting experience simple, affordable and FAST!

NOC

Our Servers are located in a Network Operations Center (NOC) which features raised flooring. This enables a constant flow of conditioned air and helps to maintain uniform room temperature at all times. In addition, raised flooring reduces static and ensures a professional, computer grade environment for our servers.

The facility is equipped with a Raytheon fire suppression system, designed to immediately extinguish fire and protect equipment and personnel. The command center is controlled via automatic doors to further secure and protect the equipment.

Finally, the NOC is located in a secure, monitored, class A building with a minimum number of approved personnel allowed access to highly sensitive areas and equipment. A detailed record of employee and visitor entry is maintained at all times.

Uninterruptible Power System

To guard against local power failures, we are connected to industrial-grade, three phase Liebert UPS systems. These act as back-up batteries, maintaining uninterrupted power in case of surges or power outages. In addition, the NOC is supplied with triple power feeds from the utility company.

In the event of a power outage, the data center is equipped with a 1500 KVA Natural Gas generator. The generator is tested every week. When a power outage is detected, the generator will start automatically within 5 seconds. This will keep the network up and running indefinitely.

Industrial-Grade Air Conditioners

The NOC has two Liebert 10 ton industrial air conditioners, which condition our computer rooms and operations center. Our computer room is kept at an optimal temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

Custom Web Servers

DomainMasters.NET's web servers are custom-built industrial machines designed for a 24/7 web serving environment. All DomainMasters.NET's servers are equipped with dual-redundant, 450-watt power supplies, swappable drives and force-filtered cooling systems. In addition, our NOC is equipped with an inventory of identically configured, burned-in standby servers. All new servers are configured with a minimum of:

• Dual Intel Xeon Class Processors

• 1 - 3 GB of RAM

• SCSI Hard Drives

• Offsite Backup facilities
   

We use only up-to-date powerful servers. Unlike some low-end hosting companies, we do not use any Celeron, AMD and Cyrix chips. We back up all servers and provide facilities so you may backup your site as well.

Force Filtered Cooling

All of DomainMasters.NET's custom web servers are equipped with a positive-pressure filtered-air system. Four large fans pull filtered air into each server's protective case, and the components within are cooled by fans that circulate this purified air. This constant introduction of clean air into the case creates a positive pressure environment ensuring that dust and particles remain outside the server.

Hot Swap Seagate Drives

The drives and drive bays of all DomainMasters.NET's servers are constructed from high-grade aluminum and rest in shock-mounted drive cages, which adds to the durability of the hardware. DomainMasters.NET's drives proudly feature the lowest failure rate in the industry.

Redundant Hot Swap Power Supplies

Each server employs dual-redundant hot swap power supplies. If a power supply were to fail, the server would continue running with power from the alternate supply. Meanwhile, alarms would alert a technician, who would quickly restore redundancy. In the meantime, servers and client sites would experience no downtime.

Standby Servers

We keep spare servers online of all CPU configurations. If a server were to experience a hardware failure, we would turn a key, grab the handle on the drive, pull it out and insert it into an identical standby CPU. We would then reboot the second machine, and the server would be up and running again in a matter of minutes.

Connected to Three Backbones

The NOC, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is OnNet with GlobalCenter (GC), Qwest Communications and GTE through three separate bandwidth-on-demand connections that enter Baltimore in our building.

GC, a Tier 1 provider with a 13,000-mile fiber optic network and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology that provides an enormous 460 gigabytes per second (Gbps) of capacity worldwide, has an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) fiber node located just a few floors below the NOC.

Qwest comes into Baltimore with an OC-12 line  and plans to upgrade its connection to an OC-48 in the near future. Qwest also has an ATM fiber node just floors below the NOC. Our Qwest connection enables DomainMasters.NET to offer additional redundancy and better routes to Europe, Latin America and Asia. With our carriers, our router has up to 150,000 possible routes to send each packet of traffic.

Furthermore, because of these unique connections, DomainMasters.NET does not need to link to the Internet through an OC3 or T3 Telecom circuit. Instead, independent cables run inside our building directly from the NOC to all three carriers' points of presence. These lines can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3 with DWDM. Plus, they handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3. Whatever your bandwidth needs may be, DomainMasters.NET has the scalability to meet them.

Network Redundancy

DomainMasters.NET uses intelligent end-user routing software called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) between Qwest, GC and AT&T, which use the same protocol. BGP identifies which path is the most efficient for each data packet and then routes the packet to its destination on the fastest path. This increases the speed at which web pages sent from our NOC arrive at their destination.

Studies have shown that the most common reason for downtime is circuit failure on Tier 1 provider backbones, the major data highways. To guard against this potential problem, we have three Tier-1 providers. If one experiences problems, we can route traffic down another one. Furthermore, because we are OnNet with GlobalCenter, Qwest and AT&T, we share their digital distribution architecture, which includes private peering network connections to major Internet carriers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, EUNET, AT&T, AOL, Best, Erols, @Home, IBM Advantis and others. These private peering arrangements allow DomainMasters.NET to quickly and efficiently exchange packets of data with every major backbone carrier in a one-to-one environment.

In addition, GC has high-speed links to eight public exchanges including both MAE East and West and several NAPS. Through these public exchanges, customers have the ability to reach their sites, no matter where they are.

Network Reliability

Industry analysis reveals that 70% of downtime of over 10 hours with any ISP is caused by telephone circuit failure. With DomainMasters.NET, circuit failure is virtually eliminated. That's because our NOC is in the same building as GlobalCenter, Qwest and AT&T. There is no phone circuit between DomainMasters.NET and these providers. Instead, there is a direct connection between our Cisco 7500 routers and theirs.

DomainMasters.NET's providers also have peering connections with other major Tier 1 providers that allow traffic to be switched to alternate backbones should the need arise.

Raw Performance Equals
Low Latency/High Throughput

Too often providers operate their networks at three to four times their responsible capacity. As a result, their corresponding transfer times reach over 300ms. DomainMasters.NET's network daily average is 27% of its capacity, with midday peak spikes reaching only 33% capacity. DomainMasters.NET guarantees that clients will be carried off our network in less than 80ms over a five-minute average at any time of day or night.

Network Maps

UUNET Global Map