Loyer TCG, Inc.

Loyer TCG offers a variety of managed hosting solutions. Our most popular services are:

Highly Available Clustered Servers
Web-based Email Solutions
Fast Email Delivery Service
Custom Security Solutions

Detailed Information

Loyer TCG, Inc. uses NetScreen for Security

NetScreen Technologies' line of integrated security appliances are purpose-built Internet security appliances that combine firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), and traffic management functions. All NetScreen integrated security appliances feature near-wire-speed performance, even for 3DES encryption, and very low latency, allowing them to seamlessly fit into any network.

Firewall security
NetScreen's appliance provides a scalable security solution, ranging from protecting broadband telecommuters to large corporate offices and e-commerce sites. NetScreen's full-featured firewall uses technology based on stateful inspection, securing against intruders and denial-of-service attacks. NetScreen's custom built ASIC processes the firewall access policies and encryption algorithms in hardware, providing significantly higher performance than software-only solutions.

ICSA certified stateful-inspection firewall
Fully integrated solution with security-optimized hardware, operating system and firewall, which provides a higher level of security than patched-together software-based solutions
Robust attack prevention including SYN attack, ICMP flood, Port Scan, and others
Network Address Translation (NAT), Port Address Translation (PAT)-hide internal, non-routable IP addresses

Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
A full-featured VPN solution is integrated into all NetScreen Appliances. These appliances support site-to-site and remote access VPN applications.

ICSA certified IPSec and VPNC tested-compatible with other IPSec certified devices
3DES and DES encryption using digital certificates (PKI X.509), IKE auto-key, or manual key
SHA-1 and MD5 strong authentication
Hub and spoke support to simplify configuration for widely deployed VPN networks, alleviating the need to configure tunnels between all remote sites

Traffic management
Traffic management allows a network administrator to monitor, analyze, and allocate bandwidth utilized by various types of network traffic in real time, thus ensuring business-critical traffic is never compromised for web surfing.

Manage based on IP Address, user, application, or time of day
Set guaranteed bandwidth and maximum bandwidth
Prioritize traffic with eight prioritization levels

Standards supported
ARP, TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, RADIUS, IPSec (IPESP), MD5, SHA-1, DES, 3DES, IKE (ISAKMP), TFTP (client), SNMP, X.509v3, DHCP, PPPoE

Loyer TCG, Inc. uses Cisco for Content Delivery

The growing demand for mission-critical Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)-based application services such as e-commerce, video, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and e-mail is motivating companies to increase the reliability of their network and server systems. The Cisco LocalDirector series is a critical component to building a highly reliable and integrated data-center network and content-delivery network. It is a proven, reliable performer. The Cisco LocalDirector series offers companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) a network-based server, application, and content load-balancing solution. Specifically, it is an integrated hardware and software solution that intelligently balances the load of user traffic across multiple TCP/IP application servers. All physical servers appear as one virtual server, with the result that only a single IP address and a single Universal Resource Locator (URL) are required for an entire server farm. Cisco LocalDirector ensures continuous, high availability of content and applications with proven techniques for actively managing servers and connections in a distributed environment. By distributing user requests across a cluster of servers, Cisco LocalDirector optimizes responsiveness and system capacity, and dramatically reduces the cost of providing large-scale Internet and content-delivery network services. In addition, its integrated security device is capable of protecting servers from unauthorized access. Cisco LocalDirector, a key component of a Cisco content-delivery network, accelerates content delivery by routing a client's request to the best Web server at the originating Web site. It supports critical content routing protocols such as Dynamic Feedback Protocol (DFP) and Boomerang Control Protocol (BCP) to ensure seamless integration with a Cisco network and reduce deployment costs. Via DFP, LocalDirector can communicate originating Web site load and availability to Cisco Distributed Director to improve Web site response times for clients. Servers and applications also can communicate directly with LocalDirector via DFP. Support for the BCP enables LocalDirector to move out of the originating Web site and participate as an edge device by providing load-balancing services for content engines and servers. LocalDirector features advanced Content Aware functionality. Cookie, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) redirect, and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session ID persistence features guarantee that a specific client gets the correct content, regardless of Internet mega proxies and shopping-cart application design. Layer 7 content load balancing increases site design flexibility and enable and accelerates content delivery. The content verification system determines with accuracy the availability of Web, application, and database servers and gives control to administrators on where to direct traffic. LocalDirector can also perform an HTTP redirect to a different location upon failure of a real or virtual IP address.

Key Features and Benefits
High-Availability Feature Sets

A stateful fail-over mechanism eliminates all points of failure and enables the configuration of robust, high-availability server farms.
The automatic detection and removal of failed applications improves overall server-farm management and reliability.
The Cisco LocalDirector content verification system monitors servers for application availability, application health, and database connectivity; it effectively routes and directs traffic only to available applications. Integrated into LocalDirector is a probe to test DNS server availability.
Upon failure of real servers, Cisco LocalDirector can HTTP redirect a client to a new location, virtual or real IP address.
The auto-unfail feature ensures a graceful shutdown that maintains existing connections without adding new connections to failed or removed servers.
A hot-standby server allows servers or ports to back up other services and ports, increasing availability.
The hot-standby configuration replication feature reduces administrative startup costs by automatically transferring the primary LocalDirector configuration to the secondary one.
HTTP redirect can redirect clients to alternative sites or content servers if all real servers are down, improving site design flexibility.
As a DFP server, LocalDiretor can communicate site load and availability to Distributed Director.

Scalability Feature Sets

A real-time embedded operating system ensures the highest performance, with models capable of 80- or 400-Mbps throughput.
The Cisco LocalDirector supports the highest-traffic Internet sites, with capacity to support 7000 connections per second or 30,000 connections per second.
ALSB with the Catalyst 6000 increases total load balancing and packet forwarding up to 15 mpps.
384 MB of RAM ensures high performance while operating Layer 7 services such as SSL and cookie persistence.
Session-distribution algorithm supports more than one million simultaneous TCP sessions to accommodate rapid user population growth.
Compatibility with any server operating system enables administrators to mix and match server hardware and operating systems while protecting IS investments.

Content Aware Feature Sets

Support for all common TCP/IP Internet services-Web, FTP, Telnet, Domain Name System (DNS), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)-accommodates a wide range of applications and communications needs.
Simple addition and removal of servers allows for an easy upgrade of applications servers. The ability to scale a server farm and direct traffic based on application allows configuration flexibility.
Layer 7 content load balancing increases site design flexibility and accelerates content delivery.
Packet coloring at the URL level allows implementation of powerful quality-of-service (QoS) networking.
SSL Sticky provides the ability to maintain client-to-server persistence based on SSL session ID, improving the overall Internet browsing experience.
Cookie Sticky provides the ability to maintain client-to-server persistence based on Cisco LocalDirector or server-generated cookies that eliminate worries about mega proxies.
HTTP Redirect Sticky provides the ability to maintain client-to-server persistence for all SSL-based shopping-cart e-commerce applications.
Cisco LocalDirector ensures that license counts or applications are not overwhelmed by setting a maximum connection.

Server Security Feature Sets

NAT functionality allows conservation of IP addresses and utilization with unregistered IP addresses, effectively preventing direct access to real servers.
Cisco LocalDirector offers robust traffic filtering based on source IP address or service.

Loyer TCG, Inc. uses WatchDog for Monitoring

WatchDog is the leading provider of site performance measurement and load time testing for businesses on the Web. WatchDog servers monitor the status of our sites from five cities around the globe to give us the best picture of site availability and load time across different regions. Each of their monitoring stations (located in San Francisco, CA; Sterling, VA; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX and London, UK) load your site separately to provide you with region-specific uptime and load time analysis. This distributed model helps to ensure that we won't be given false information about your site being down or your site load time if a regional portion of the Internet is experiencing problems.

WatchDog helps to ensures that Loyer TCG can guarantee 24 x 7 monitoring and control over your site's availability. WatchDog also allows Loyer TCG to compare the performance of your site to the Business Top 50 and to maintain our top fifteen ranking for all of our clients.

Loyer TCG, Inc. uses Spectra Logic for Backup

Spectra Logic designs and manufactures automated tape libraries and other products that protect customer data. For more than 20 years, they have developed leading edge technology in their products. Their products have proven to be among the most reliable in the data storage arena.

Spectra Logic products target heterogeneous data centers that operate 24 hours per day, seven days per week (24x7), have hundreds of gigabytes (GB) or even terabytes (TB) of data, and require reliable, unattended data backup. In addition, the extensibility and flexibility of the company's solutions allow it to address widely diverse system requirements.