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There are many data centers and hosting companies who claim to operate 'green'. However "green" data centres are not created equal. A lot of hosting companies who claim to be green simply offset their energy consumption no matter what it is, with REC's. Although this is a step in the right direction, it is a long way from where we have to go. Often data centre's don't even count the electricity that is required for cooling and lighting etc and instead just offset the electricity that goes into powering the servers themselves. However, the biggest energy requirements in a data centre come from the inefficent air conditioning systems most data centre's use.
So how do you tell if a data centre is truely green?
The best indication of a data centre being truly green is it's Power Usage Effectiveness.
A data center may buy REC's to offset the dirty electricity they use, but that does not make its energy usage low. A data center may install Hot/Cold Aisles, but that does not necessarily result in the best possible energy saving. The PUE of a data center is the key figure that shows how energy efficient a data center actually is and therefore how truely green it is.
Little Web Feet's data centre has a PUE of 1.14 whereas most data centers in the US, according to the EPA, have PUE’s of 2.0 to 3.0.
How does our data centre have such a low PUE?
- The building is environmentally friendly with an R value of 50
- Virtualization cuts the server footprint by 80%
- AMD powered IBM BladeCenter servers consume less than 1/2 of the energy of regular servers
- Solar Tubes reduce energy consumed by interior lighting by 2100watts
- Low energy, water based, air conditioning systems use 90% less electricity than refrigerants
- A completely white reflective building reduces cooling needs
- The green roof, (underconstruction), can reduce cooling needs by 20degrees
The fact that our data centre has been able to reduce it's energy needs has made it possible to be the first and only 100% completely solar powered, carbon free data centre that does not need to use offsets.
Our System Uses:
- Redundant Bandwidth provided by PAETEC, Cogent and Time Warner
- Redundant Cisco 7200 VXR series routers
- Redundant Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls
- Redundant SOURCEfire Snort 3D Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
- Redundant Cisco Catalyst 4500 series Gigabit switches
- Redundant Packeteer packet shapers
- Redundant Network Cards in all servers
- Redundant Power Supplies in all servers
- Redundant AMD Opteron powered IBM servers
- Redundant Clustered NetApp SAN (storage area network)
- Redundant Backup Servers
- Redundant APC Network Line Conditioners
- Redundant, Fault Tolerant Web & E-mail Servers running in VMware
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How safe is your data?
Security
We cannot claim this is Fort Knox but we do have guard dogs and cameras on premises. Our network is guarded by:
* State of the art Cisco 5500 series Adaptive Security Appliances which provides advanced application-aware firewall services with identity-based access control, denial of service attack protection, and more -- all built upon market proven Cisco PIX security appliance technology
* SOURCEfire's Intrusion, Detection and Prevention system with Real-time Network Awareness which provides protection against both known and unknown threats powered by Snort rules. This protects against threats by detecting all possible vulnerabilities that could be exploited.
* RNA - an innovative, passive sensing technology which provides real-time network intelligence that allows full automation of IPS tuning and security event analysis
Monitoring
Little Web Feet's servers are monitored 24/7. Our data centre runs redundant monitoring servers that monitor each piece of equipment on our network. Our monitoring is so advanced it will notify our NOC (network operating center) if there is any issues with our switches, routers, servers, bandwidth, etc. so we can proactively handle potential problems. This type of proactive monitoring ensures our clients the most possible uptime available.
Spam & Virus Protection
Every email message coming to any account on our servers is put through an 11 step spam protection process, then it is scanned for viruses using the acclaimed Clam AntiVirus, which prevents emails containing viruses and phishing scams from reaching your inbox.
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Little Web Feet's Advanced Groupware WebMail System is specially designed for business users. Our webmail system is the perfect e-mail system for busy on-the-go business owners because it makes managing your e-mail accounts quick and easy.
Just a few of Little Web Feet's WebMail System intuitive and easy-to-use major features are:
Personal Calendar/Task List
Now you don't have any excuse for skipping meetings! Our Solar Powered WebMail has a fully featured Calendar and Task List organizer that gives you the power to accurately manage your time and seamlessly track and schedule appointments across your personalized domain-specific e-mail accounts.
Folder Management
Keeping e-mails organized by project, type or sender just got easier. Our Solar Powered WebMail gives you the option of simply right-clicking your mouse to quickly add or delete mailbox sub-folders. Effortlessly categorize and manage folders, create sub-folders, and drop and drag messages.
PGP Support/Encryption
Confidently send and receive secure email messages through an easy-to-use Solar Powered WebMail interface that gives you the ability to sign outgoing messages, so that recipients can quickly verify e-mail authenticity. Options range from commercial to military grade encryption (4096 bit) for outgoing e-mail messages. Messages can be automatically signed with your public encryption key, allowing others to send encrypted messages to you.
Everywhere Access
Perfect for your busy lifestyle, our Solar Powered WebMail lets you receive e-mail via your cell phone, PDA or any other mobile device that supports WAP/XHTML protocol; this also includes the popular Apple iPhone by just browsing on your iPhone to http://mail.your-domain-name.com and logging into the simple interface. This is useful for cell-phones or PDA's that do not have a built in POP3/IMAP e-mail client, or you don't want to use the built in one.
Complete E-mail View
Instantly track all e-mail messages about a particular subject. Our Solar Powered WebMail gives you the ability to see all e-mails within one e-mail thread, without opening multiple windows.
Easy Interfaces
Ease-of-use is key when it comes to learning new applications. If using it isn't second nature, you won't. Our Solar Powered WebMail's user-friendly and intuitive screens and functions make it a piece of cake to learn and use.
Outlook Synchronization Utility
This utility allows you to sync your Solar Powered WebMail account with Outlook 2007, 2003 & 2000. With it all contacts, calendar and task information you have with the WebMail account are transferred over to Outlook, and vice-versa.
Blackberry Synchronization
Coming Soon: Blackberry device syncing of contacts, calendar and tasks
Wireless Synchronization
We now offer customers iPhone "Push E-mail" support - allowing you to receive notifications for new e-mail messages on your phone, instantly. All e-mails on the server are synchronized with the mobile device in realtime. When adding a new contact on your phone address-book, the contact details are available instantly in the Webmail interface. Any contacts created via Webmail are pushed to the Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile and ActiveSync-compatible devices. The push support does not require any special plugins, connectors, or third-party software installed on mobile devices. The system supports the ActiveSync protocol and works using the Push/sync protocol out of the box.
Groupware Address-book/Calendar/Task List
Our Solar Powered WebMail Groupware combines the ability to share Address-book and Calendar Items/Tasks among groups of users with optional permission levels (Read/Write and Read-Only). The system provides a complete Web-based Groupware system for users within your organization. The Shared Address-book is similar to the Personal Address-book, with the additional functionality of sharing contacts with other users (or groups of users within your domain name). Shared contacts can be assigned read/write permissions; enabling the users with whom the contacts are shared to modify the contact entries directly. Optionally, read-only access can be granted to allow the entry to be viewed by selected users, but can only be modified by the original owner. The Calendar functionality of system allows users to assign tasks to one another and set appointments (reminders), plus include the ability to define the alert time of an event and the free/busy status of an event. Permission level settings are provided, enabling the owner of a task to enable or restrict the recipients' ability to modify the task. Plus Multiple Calendar support allowing a user to create a new calendar and share this between local users. This extends the traditional "Personal" and "Shared" calendars, allowing a user to create their own and optionally share an entire calendar with other users.
Other features include:
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SSL (Secure/Encrypted) Webmail access |
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We support the following e-mail protocols: SMTP/ESMTP, POP3, IMAP4, POP3-SSL, IMAP4-SSL, and Secure SMTP (SMTP Auth over SSL/TLS) |
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A desktop utility which automatically checks new messages on the server, and alerts you of new messages via a popup display. |
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An "Advanced" interface for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox that look like traditional desktop webmail clients, utilizing the latest in Javascript/XUL & AJAX technologies. A "Simple" interface powered by Ajax and a light-weight "Basic" inteface for legacy browsers or slow internet connections. |
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Support for the iCal standard for exporting Calendar data created via our Solar Powered Web Mail interface. Calendar data created via Webmail can be exported into iCal and used by Outlook, Apple iCal, other standard e-mail clients. |
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Enhanced Address Book functionality allows you to import and export contacts from/to CSV (Comma Separated Values) file format. |
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After logging into your email account, view a summary via the webmail client "start page". Here you can check a summary of the latest e-mail messages, disk quota used and total, tips, calendar entries, tasks, and recent logins. |
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E-mail messages can be viewed within a tabbed pane below the folder message-list pane. The tabbed interface allows quick navigation of messages. |
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E-mail folders are accessible via a tree-menu, making it easy to categorize folders and access them again quickly. Sub-folders can be created by right-clicking on a folder. To move a message into a folder, simply 'drag and drop' the message into the desired folder (or check the box next to message and select the destination folder from a list). |
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Supports MIME e-mail messages, allowing you to receive attached pictures, multimedia content and data contained in e-mail messages. You can compose e-mail messages and attach files to outgoing messages. |
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The Webmail System offers many options that the you can choose from, including time zone, language, e-mail sorting, font style, inbox refresh rate, time format and more. Providing a powerful and feature-rich webmail system for your e-mail accounts. |
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Messages contained in a your Inbox can be sorted by Subject, Date, or E-mail Address. You can also search your mailbox for messages containing matches of a user-specified string, allowing quick and easy access to stored e-mail. |
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The Webmail system utilizes a Multi-Language system, and can be used in a number of different European, Asian and Middle Eastern languages. Including Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Espanol, French, German, Greek, Italiano, Japanese and Portuguese. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 28 June 2009 20:58 |
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There are some significant differences between Linux servers and Windows servers: but most of these differences only effect the people managing and maintaining the servers themselves. As a Little Web Feet hosting client, you are our guest and our data centre takes care of the all the server managing.
So the choice comes down to what kind of software you would like to use. The biggest differences between the 2 platforms that you will notice is the difference in the software that is supported. With windows you get Microsoft programs like: ASP, MS Access, DSN Connections etc. With Linux you get a platform that supports thousands of opensource programs like Joomla and Drupal.
If you just need a simple html site that isn't going to need a database or any advanced coding, a linux or windows plan will make little difference.
And in the end, if you realize you need a different platform - we can always move you to a different server.
If you have any questions or need advice on the right plan for you, please don't hesitate to contact us. We love to talk shop! |
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Our Solar Powered email tool is included with every hosting plan.
However, if you are simply interested in having carbon neutral email without the hosting we can set that up as well.
Our Solar Powered Mail Program:
• E-mail hosting for your domain name (domain registration separate)
• Advanced Spam filtering
• Advanced Virus filtering
• 500 MB of e-mail space (500 max e-mail accounts if each is 1MB)
• Advanced Groupware web based e-mail
• SSL (Secure/Encrypted) webmail access
• POP3, IMAP4, POP3-SSL, and IMAP4-SSL e-mail protocol support
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