QWK.Net Web Services

QWK.Net has chosen a combination of high-end Intel hardware and the Linux operating system as its server platform of choice. We've seen this combination work incredibly well in countless installations, and in the right hands, nothing beats it for price vs. performance. Be wary of providers trying to justify their investment in over-priced, over-prestiged systems. We don't have a ridiculous hardware and software cost to pass on to our customers, and nothing beats our platform for reliability, price/performance, and maintainability. Our 99.9% track-proven uptime ratio speaks for itself.

We run consistent hardware across servers, which allows us to inventory a greater volume of redundant hardware. We always have sufficient spare parts, from components to complete servers, to recover from any hardware failure in very short order.

QWK.Net features high-quality Dell PowerEdge servers.

Hardware:

Dual Pentium III/Xeon
SDRAM ECC (error correcting) parity RAM
Dell PERC / Mylex SCSI Disk Array Controllers
Hot-swappable Ultra-Wide/LVD SCSI disks in redundant configurations
Intel Pro 10/100 Ethernet

Software:

Base Operating System: Linux
Web Server: Apache 1.3.xx
Apache-SSL for secure servers
Proprietary security monitoring and reporting tools
RAID monitoring and data integrity tools
Standard development tools, including gcc, perl 5, etc.,
Common pre-configured CGIs, including FormMail, counters, search, etc.
MySQL for database services

We welcome questions about details of our server configurations. Please feel free to mail us and ask.