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Fortweb.com - Hosting and Web Development

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Who is Fortweb.com? - Many of you know us as the people behind artbycheryl.com and a few other notable sites since 1996. No, we don't have triple redundant DS3 lines running into our home with racks of servers, our servers are hosted at professionally staffed data centers across the country.

As web developers we manage a lot of domains for both our own commercial sites and our clients. They all have to be hosted somewhere so we buy remotely located, dedicated servers to host them on. This gives us the opportunity to offer people the same hosting we use ourselves and it also allows us to offer a variety of plans with different options.

Every web site has different requirements and often people will pay for features they do not really need. Our plans were designed to fit every level of user from a web site about your pet to a commercial bandwidth consuming monster that streams Real media and is managed by a team of developers!


	Our Sun server is used to host the Advanced Plans we offer. This powerful Sun Microsystems 250 Enterprise Server has dual 296MHz UltraSparc II Processors, each with 2MB of Cache, and 2,048 MB of memory. It is running under Solaris and has over 100 GB of drive capacity, running in a RAID-5 configuration. This server is located at our St. Louis, Missouri data center.


	Our PC based servers are used to host our Basic and Reseller plans. They run under RedHat Linux and we have two types of system hardware on our network. One server is a 1 GHz AMD Duron with 1024 MB RAM and the others are IBM X-Series 300 machines with a 1.34 GHz PIII processor. These servers are located at data centers in Texas, California and Pennsylvania.

Our servers are all well connected to the Internet! They sit on multiple OC3, DS3 and GB Links so access is always fast and clean. We evaluate each of our data centers and choose only the most reliable, professionally staffed bandwidth providers in the country!

We use multiple data centers in different geographical locations for a very good reason. Although our servers are rock solid we can't anticipate a catastrophic event. If anything would ever happen to one of our servers, chances are high that our other data centers would not be effected. This would allow us to move clients to another server very quickly with a DNS change.


	No, were not a giant company in Silicon Valley, were a little company in Indiana and were here to stay! Our servers are as rock solid as our resolve to provide you with the best service on the web. Please view our Acceptable Use Policy before buying a server from us and feel free to contact us should you feel the need to.