Our Technology Introducing HAVEN!
HAVEN represents the latest in virtual server, networking and storage technology developed by and located in the Maine Hosting Solutions Data Center. Through a partnership with Nexus, VMware, Cisco and EMC; MHS has implemented Northern New England’s first commercially available High Availability Managed Server Infrastructure.
Current HAVEN Shared Server Environment Specs:
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| HAVEN Server |
8X HP DL360 G7 Servers
Fault Tolerant Hardware
EMC SAN Backend
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| Processors |
8xDual (2x) Quad Core (4x) 2.9Ghz Intel Xeon
8MB cache (8×8 Core Units, 64 Core Processors Total) |
| RAM |
8×64 GB DDR3 Registered
(512GB Ram Total) |
| Storage |
Fiber Direct 10TB SAN Storage Connection – Raid 6 |
| Operating System |
Linux RedHat Enterprise |
| Network |
On-Board Dual 10 Gigabit Network Adapters – Fully burstable OC3x4, Cisco Routers |
| Control Panel |
cPanel with WHM (Web Hosting Manager) for all Dedicated Reseller Servers |
| Stats |
AWStats |
| Database |
MySQL/PHP |
| Power Supply |
Dual 110v with Bat. Power |
| Firewall |
Confidential |
 Web Hosting User Control
- User Control Panel: cPanel & WebHost Manager (WHM) is a next generation web hosting control panel system. Both cPanel & WHM are extremely feature rich as well as include an easy to use web based interface (GUI)
- cPanel (end user control panel) is designed for the end users of the Maine Hosting Solutions system and allows them to control everything from adding / removing email accounts to administering MySQL databases, eCommerce, security and more.
- WHM (Web Hosting Manger, Dedicated Reseller Server Control Panel) allows you to administer individual accounts, hosting packages, reseller accounts & performing basic system and control panel maintenance via a secure interface.
- HAVEN: – noun: any place of shelter and safety.
- MHS HAVEN: – noun: High Availability Virtual Enterprise Network
What is HAVEN?
- HAVEN represents the latest in virtual server, networking and storage technology developed by and located in the Maine Hosting Solutions’ Data Center. Through a partnership with Nexus, VMware, Cisco and EMC, MHS has implemented Northern New England’s first commercially available High Availability Colocation Infrastructure.
Why was HAVEN designed?
- Maine Hosting Solutions saw a need to provide customers with a flexible colocation option that goes beyond the standard ping, power and pipe. With HAVEN customers are able to scale server resources to meet actual requirements of their business needs. These needs may range from upgrading the primary server environment to disaster recovery and business continuity requirements.
HAVEN as the primary infrastructure
- Physical Dedicated Servers, were and still are, a viable option for providing greater reliability for the primary infrastructure. Physically provisioning servers in a data center can be costly and expensive. Greater reliability is gained through traditional dedicated servers in terms of redundant power, HVAC and networking options. HAVEN goes several steps further than traditional DSs do. Using the power Nexus, VMware, Cisco, EMC and HAVEN allows us to virtually move servers within the MHS Data Center where the benefits of DSs are inherently present within the High Availability infrastructure of HAVEN.
HAVEN for disaster recovery and business continuity
- Disaster recovery and business continuity is a concern for nearly every business. Implementing a plan to address these concerns can be complex, expensive and difficult to manage. HAVEN eliminates the complexity. MHS has already built the environment for you. The costs are reduced because you only purchase the resources you need and can scale up or down as needs change. Implementation and management of the environment is simplified with the engineering assistance of the MHS Technical Support Team.
Datacenter and Connectivity Structure:
- Datacenter is staffed 24/7/365 with Double Door Mantrap Security Entrance
- Datacenter is protected with a 10C Inergen Fire Suppression System
- Datacenter is protected with dual backup cooling systems to maintain a constant temperature of 65F, cooled raised flooring and racks
- Datacenter is located in Brunswick, Maine outside of a flood zone w/16″ reinforced concrete foundation
- Datacenter is connected with multiple failover data providers for 100% connectivity to the internet via: (1) ATT, (2) Qwest, (3) GWI, (4) Fairpoint
The MHS Network
The MHS Architecture:
- Utilizing Enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper and Cisco gives us superior reliability. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco 6500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer. Our network is fully meshed and redundant with 8 backbone providers for a total of 27 Gbps of available bandwidth.
- With Network Operation Center partnerships in Brunswick, Maine and Houston, Texas we offer the broadest network of servers offered in the industry along with an industrial strength backup network. And YES, we are based out of Bath, Maine!
Equipment, Protection & Redundancy:
- Spare Servers, Drives, Processors and Ram on hand for quick replacement of any failed equipment
- All physical dedicated servers are suited with Dual Raid 1 Mirrored Drives for full data redundancy within the server
- All HAVEN Servers are Raid 6 for the best in data protection, it would take 3 concurrent drive fails to necessitate recovery from the backup system.
- Automatic same drive backups via cPanel, daily and weekly Backups
- Automatic nightly Network Storage Devise (NAS) Backups to our 10TB Raid 6 NAS
- 30 Minute Backup 110V battery power failover
- Dual diesel generators that can over power the entire datacenter with automatic failover
- Nightly, Weekly or Monthly OFF network backups provided upon request
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