Our infrastructure has been designed to streamline operations and deliver expert Internet hosting and maintenance solutions. Performance Most hosting companies rely on a single DS3 connection. Our main networks, located at SIRS Mandarin, Inc.'s headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, are connected to the Internet via two redundant 45 Megabit fiber-optic DS3 direct connections. Utilizing two separate connectivity providers, Sprint and Qwest, enables us to route information transparently switching traffic around bottlenecks and avoiding delays. Reliability SIRS maintains onsite mirror systems and a power failure generator to prevent any service interruption and provides scheduled tape back-ups, routine and emergency data restoration, and data archiving.
All backup data is stored off-site to ensure availability in case of disaster.
SIRS ensures web site security with firewall services. SIRS understands the needs of educational technology and designed our systems for a growing market. SIRS' cluster manager dynamically distributes requests across a group of redundant servers, balancing the load and providing optimum bandwidth performance. Input and output processes are distributed across a multiprocessor platform enabling our systems to easily handle multi-user access to upwards of thousands of users simultaneously. As a case study, SIRS generates thousands of database queries per second, which are transparent to the user, without any noticeable system performance degradation.