Online & Desktop Software Services

We are software engineers at heart. Our past projects have spanned the range of solutions from Adobe Photoshop plugins and printer drivers, to full on custom client server production orientated workflow software, commerce systems with myriad input and output paths, transaction processing, and large scale data handling (read as millions of transactions per month). We are up to the task of creating your application, modifying your existing codebase, or implementing your software requirements on an open source package.

Technology Experts?

However, we are not experts in every technology, programming fad, and online service system that comes over the horizon. We have chosen Apache as our web server, Perl and PHP as our primary internet application scripting languages, and Postgres as our database handler. To get the job done for ourselves and the customers we support, these are some of the frameworks and applications we can apply:

  • CMS Made Simple - Easy to use and customize content management system, you're seeing it now
  • CodeIgniter - Versatile PHP based application programmer framework
  • poMMo - Email broadcast list management for companies & organizations
  • Joomla - Large scale content management system
  • Postgres - A database for those that require heavy lifting, support for industry standards, high availability and no compromises
  • Apache - Web server of choice, compiled the way we like it
  • iWeb, Dreamweaver, Kompozer, Amaya, Aptana - We will support just about any site development and maintenance system you use
  • Gallery (1 & 2) - Customized image management and sharing
  • Cyrus IMAP, Postfix, Spam Assassin, ClamAV, and Squirrel Mail handle our email duties - all over SSL if you like
  • BIND DNS - We run our own, and contract out for global replication
  • SSH / SCP - Because we're tired of broadcasting passwords in the clear with FTP, you should be too

Our Service Hardware & Location

We feel it it is an important distinction to point out that we own and operate our own hardware. Many other typical hosting agencies rent their machines and do not take an active role in provisioning the operating system, refining the installation, and then managing the full system.

Online software application services do not operate in a vacuum, they rely on the underlying operating system and it's many thousands of supporting functions. We are an agency which understands this and optimizes how applications interact with the systems around it. Those other agencies can have un-associated system management, with potentially many other hosting service resellers sharing the same hardware, leading to unexpected downtime and resource conflicts.

Infrastructure

  • Sun Microsystems multi-processor server hardware
  • Solaris Unix operating system, hardened against constant attack attempts
  • RAID 5 Disk subsystem to keep your data available
  • Mirrored Disk subsystem to keep our operating systems online
  • Pre-production / QA server
  • Both daily and hourly disk and database backups
  • Physically racked at a datacenter outside Washington D.C.
    (Don't sweat it, we live close by to get hands-on if necessary)
  • Datacenter has multiple networks (Level3 and Cogent if you must know), peering, and backup power