PortalStones Business Class Web and Application Hosting service is built with best-of-breed technologies and service providers. Here's the short list of our technology partners.

Level3 Communications
Level3 is one of our global network providers. The company operates one of the largest communications and Internet backbones in the world. Nine out of ten of the world’s largest telecom carriers use Level3 services, as do five of the top six U.S. Internet Service Providers, and nine out of ten of the largest European telecom carriers. Level3 has built a 22,500-mile multi-conduit intercity network and 33 multi-conduit metropolitan networks in North America and Europe. Additionally, the company constructed a transatlantic cable system connecting North America and Europe.

Williams Communications
WilTel Communications is one of our global network providers. The company is a leading provider of communications solutions to enterprises, carriers, and the federal government. WilTel delivers a comprehensive suite of voice, data, video and IP services over a next-generation fiber-optic network that stretches from border-to-border and coast-to-coast.

Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is one of our switching technology providers. The companys switches provide high-end, multilayer intelligent service switching solutions with diverse interfaces, high port densities, a scalable network infrastructure, and extensible functionality. They also happen to be the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.

Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks is one of our switching technology providers. The companys switches meet evolving business requirements by delivering scalable speed, bandwidth, network size and quality of service to today's networks. Within each switch is a non-blocking switch fabric that provides full wire-speed Layer 3 and Layer 2 performance all the time. In each instance, the backplane capacity is greater than the aggregation of all its ports, so data is not lost - even when the network load requires all ports to deliver full gigabit bandwidth.

SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft is one of our database software providers. Benchmarked for scalability, speed, and performance, SQL Server 2000 is a fully enterprise-class database product, providing core support for Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Internet queries.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft is one of our server operating system providers. We deploy and manage Windows Server 2003 server clusters for some of our customers. It is the fastest, most reliable, most secure Windows server operating system ever offered by Microsoft.

MySQL - Database Server
MySQL is one of our database software providers. The MySQL open source database server now has more than five million active installations. Companies such as Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Lucent Technologies, HP and NASA are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL's high performance, reliable database management software to power large Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software applications.

PHP - Scripting Language
PHP is one of our scripting language software providers. PHP is the fastest growing server-side scripting language on the web. PHP is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.