To deliver PortalStone's business and enterprise class web and application hosting service, we have brought a wealth of technical and intellectual capital to the table.

PortalStone's technical intellectual capital is based on our solid core competencies in the technologies, disciplines and standards that support the online delivery of mission critical applications. This includes: Unix and Windows server operating systems; SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases; webserver hardware; wide and local area networks; system, server, security and database administration; system architecture; and, software development. PortalStone's business intellectual capital is based on our solid core competencies in management and the management consulting model whereby the customer and solution are the central focus. PortalStone's founder has a significant background in running management consulting practices and projects and providing mission-critical technology management consulting services to many Fortune 500 companies including CitiBank, IBM and Merrill Lynch.

Our intellectual capital, combined with our technology, insures the successful ongoing delivery of PortalStone's business and enterprise class service.

From a pure technology perspective, we have architected a business and enterprise class web and application hosting service that is fast, reliable, robust and secure, and yet priced very reasonably. This service features multiple layers of redundancy with fault-tolerance and auto-rollover at all levels. We use fast low-load servers that are routed through Cisco and Juniper wire-speed switching technology to the major Broadband Peering Fabrics (with zero-hop connectivity) in the Los Angeles and New York City metropolitan areas using 10 Gigabit Ethernet circuits across metro dark-fiber ringed networks. These Peering Fabrics have all the major metropolitan Broadband ISPs connected to them; in most cases with zero hops. Also, national and international connectivity and routes are handled with many diverse, high capacity paths in and out of the network via fully redundant and BGP4 optimized Tier 1 long and short-haul fiber networks. As a result, our clients rest assured that their content is always delivered wherever, despite any single point of failure in the network.

Our Data Centers are located in downtown Los Angeles and Manahattan and feature: carrier-neutral buildings; 24x7 onsite staff and 24x7 monitoring; 24 hour access with lobby security and separate NOC security; card key access; CCTV surveillance; dedicated raised floor rated at 130 lbs./ sq. ft.; American Power Conversion (APC) and custom equipment used for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems; standby diesel generators for backup power; early warning systems for smoke and fire detection; dry pipe sprinkler system; and, A/C units maintaining a climate of 72 degrees (+/- 5) and 30-60% humidity, N+1 redundancy.

Can we guarantee 100% uptime? Quite simply, no. But we're pretty darn close. We've had less than 3 hours of unscheduled downtime per year since 2005. We have built a highly reliable system and have implemented procedures to provide one of the best uptime stats on the planet.