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Pisces
Pisces is a powerful Sun Microsystems 250 Enterprise Server. Pisces is running dual 300MHz UltraSparc II Processors, each with 2MB of Cache, and 1,024 MB of memory. Pisces is running on Solaris 2.7 release 05/99 with Apache 1.3.3 and has over 100GB of drive capacity, running in a RAID-5 configuration. Click here for more information on the Sun E250 server.
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Total Uptime for the month: 99.96%
How it works: We are using What's Up Gold to monitor all essential services across all servers. What's Up will send a 56 byte packet to specific ports (80 for HTTP) every minute of every day, 365 days per year. If the port is pingable and responsive, then the service is available. Otherwise, What's Up assumes this service is down.
Definitions of Services and Protocols Monitored
FTP
FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is a protcol best used for transferring files across networks. You have probably used FTP in order to upload your website to your account with us. Interruptions in FTP service means that you cannot upload or download anything to or from your account via FTP.
POP3
POP3, or Post Office Protocol version 3, is used to authenticate you when your check your e-mail. An outage in POP3 would mean that you could not check and subsquently download any new e-mail from your account.
SMTP
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is used when your send e-mail from your account with us. Without SMTP being up, you could not send any composed e-mail messages waiting in the que to be sent.
Telnet
Telnet is less-important service which allows you to remotely connect to the server and issue commands.
HTTP
Probably the most important protocol, HTTP, or Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol is used to transfer files from your account to those that request them via the world wide web. This service is essential to the accessibility of your website. If HTTP goes down, your website would be inaccessible.
PCP
PCP is the Personal Control Panel, which is also monitored. The PCP uses HTTP as well, just on a different port (911).
SSL
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, which is a secure method for HTTP. This protocol is used often in commerce transactions via the web. An interruption in SSL service means that SSL on your website (if used) would not be available.
mySQL
mySQL is the database program used for on pisces. This is a seperate program running that allows you to control your databases. Without this service being up, you will not be able to access any of your database information.
InfoChat
InfoChat is one of the two chat applications we make available for your use. When InfoChat is down, you cannot use this chatroom on your account.