DKTS Computing Infrastructure --
Our Servers, Etc.
To serve you best, we've got an Ethernet LAN connecting:
- A consumer-grade DSL
line, leased from Sonic.net
with whose service we've been pleased,
preceded (when we had a rack full of equipment in our basement)
by a symmetric (the good kind) DSL line from
Worldcom,
formerly
Covad
which bought
Uunet
which is whom we chose in the beginning... all those years ago.
We've been a Uunet customer since the late 1980s.
We even met Rick Adams once, before he was rich.
- A 56KB
frame relay
line, leased from
Pacific Bell...
but we tired of their poor, overpriced service.
- Internet service initially provided by ISP pioneer
The
Little Garden (TLGnet),
acquired by
Best (a misnomer),
acquired by
Verio
and who knows where it's gone since then... they lost us long ago.
- A Flowpoint
2200 DSL router
- A P-50 router from
Ascend,
acquired by
Lucent.
- RaQ 550 and RaQ 2 Linux-based server appliances from
Cobalt
Networks, acquired by Sun.
Service and support were terrific until Sun terminated this product line.
- Until we shut it down, we colocated our Cobalt at
ServePath
which gave great service is still going strong.
- A couple of IBM
RS/6000 workstations.
- An HP Netserver E 30,
a series 9000 workstation,
some Laserjet printers and a ScanJet scanner.
- A Tektronix
color laser printer.
- An SGI Indy.
- A Sun SPARCstation.
- Various nameless PC clones running, of course,
Microsoft
operating systems.
Software? Have we got software? Do we ever!
Let's see, there's:
Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, Windows 95, 2000 and NT
(workstation and server),
Sybase, Perl, Netscape, Apache, Framemaker, ARCServe,
Cosmo Create, FrontPage,
pine, s/key, DNS primary and secondaries,
Quickbooks,
FrontPage, xv, MKS, Riven (Oops! How did that get in there?)
Well, you get the idea. Lots of stuff.