Enterprise Level Data Center Power generators Battery backups Redundant Air Conditioning Armed security Advanced fire surpression 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring We pay extra to talk directly to the "tech" people, not customer service 2 Corporate firewalls at the switch level 14 diferent Internet connections High Quality Dell Servers Server grade hardware (no regular "desktop" parts) We keep 2 copies of our daily backups Individual Firewalls on each server 2nd aditional backup done periodically Constant monitoring Upgrading hardware and software LAMP -- Linux: We exclusively use Red Hat Enterprise Server. We could use a free version of Linux, but we like to have Red Hat behind us if we need extra support. Red Hat is the largest and best Linux company in the planet. -- Apache: Apache is the most used web server software out there. Known for its speed and rock solid stability -- MySQL: MySQL is famous for being extremely capable and probably the fastest database program out there -- Perl/PHP/Python: We use all 3 of those modern programming languages - we use the best language for the job - this way we save time and have the best stability. - Ajax Ajax isn't a programming language, but a way of programming. We use it extensively, careful never to over use it. - Macromedia Flash Used many years ago simply to bring animation to websites. Today it is a mojor development platform that we take advantage of when necessary. - XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format. XML is playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. XML today is the de facto standard in sharing information. - ColdFusion Although most of our work today is done in Perl/PHP/Python we still have sites we maintain in ColdFusion.