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Technical Specifications

Hardware

Your ConnectWeb services is hosted on a cluster of Sun Microsystems machines running Solaris8.
Server machines include Netra T1/T1 AC200's, Sunfire V120's, Sunfire V240's, and E480R's.

All customer disk components are located on a Network Appliance Filer.

Load balancing and request allocation is handled by BigIP F5 engines

Server Software

AAPT uses Apache as it's Web server of choice. software developed by the Apache Group. Popular for its speed, expandability and fast development pace, its source code is available and can be modified to add new features easily. It offers superior and unlimited virtual domain name hosting, has good security and is well supported. Apache copes well with large loads and experiences few core dumps or memory leaks.

Apache is designed to be highly modular so that server administrators can remove modules of the server's operations which perform functions that are not needed to improve server performance. This modularity is a significant difference between Apache and NCSA servers. Third-party developers can develop for Apache easily using the extensible module API and web engineers can develop applications which previously used the slower CGI system.

For more information about Apache see http://www.apache.org