They can provide animated banners, animated images, Java applets, Java script, CGI, Web hosting. Your Connection, Our Connection For dialup connections, CIFNet uses all-digital modem pools consisting of equipment from US Robotics. These modems will give you faster and more reliable connection. They also enable us to expand our service much more easily than if we were to buy and install new analog modems. If users report a busy signal, CIFNet has the ability to connect as many phone lines as necessary to relieve the problem.
Some Internet providers run all their services from one or two servers.
CIFNet uses eight servers to keep its services up and running. These servers range from our dedicated news and IRC servers right down to the secure commercial web servers. All these servers run Unix variants, which CIFNet feels is the only operating system that should be used for networking. All machines run on PC stations with power backups, so even if we lose power, you won't be out of service. If one of these machines should go down, CIFNet's engineers are on call 24 hours a day to fix any problems.