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With just a few modifications when your clients call your company number to activate their calling card or add funds to their account they’ll hear your unique company voice and greetings.  AS a recognized official partner PingPipe has a  wide variety of self-managed dedicated servers available, all installed with Genuine licensed Voipswitch software.For additional information and details on alternative configurations please contact PingPipe sales department. Here is a partial list of the audio files that you will have available to add your voice to :

“your account has been created”

“you do not have sufficient funds in your account”

“the party you are calling is busy”

“you have entered the invalid card number. Please re-enter your card number followed by pound key”

“please press one for English or two for Spanish”

“Welcome to voicemail”

“Your welcome message has been saved”

“Your call has been transferred to voicemail system, please leave the message after the tone”

For additional information and details on alternative configurations please contact PingPipe sales department.

RAID 0 – Technically, this level is not true RAID, as there is no redundancy. The disks in a RAID-0 array are partitioned into many sectors, and data is written onto each sector in a striping fashion. There is no redundancy, so if any one hard drive fails the data on it is lost.

RAID 1 – This is when your data is mirrored onto multiple hard drives. The information stored on each disk is identical, so this level of RAID can be thought of as a “real-time backup”. Data can be read from either hard drive, so it speeds up access times when there are multiple users. If any one disk fails it can be replaced and the array will rebuild itself.

RAID 5 – This level of RAID uses three or more hard drives, and provides a higher level of protection and redundancy  for your data if any one disk fails.

RAID 10 – This is a combination of RAID-1 and RAID-0. It allows for quicker access times than RAID-1 alone, while protecting your data.

Server hard drives are mechanical, and as such they do sometimes fail. If your data is important RAID should be in your hardware budget, perhaps with secure backup space also (as another level of redundancy). RAID can be thought of as a form of insurance for your data: you may never have to take advantage of it, but it only takes one hard drive failure to make you wish you had it. It’s best that you order RAID on your new dedicated servers when you place the order. If you wait until after the operating system has been loaded a reformat would be needed in order to have the RAID card recognized by the server. RAID is an available option on most dedicated servers with PingPipe.

The biggest upside is that you would not have to pay monthly hosting to a dedicated server rental company, you would be only be using more of the internet connection that you already pay for, and can probably recycle an old computer to use as the server.

Before you go up in the attic to search for that old Commodore 64 or start the task of  untangling that birds-nest-ball of Ethernet cable,  make a telephone call to your internet service provider or have a look at their website and read the Terms of Service. Most ISP’s – usually the cable or telephone company – frown on this behavior.

The bandwidth is probably available. Technically everyone could run a dedicated server from their home.  This possibility usually isn’t included in most ISP’s business models, though. At least not the successful ones.  Internet bandwidth is not limitless, and unfortunately also is not free. Just like everyone, your ISP pays a monthly fee for their  internet connection.

Successful home internet service providers usually base their revenue projections on the fact that most people will probably only use a fraction of their potential monthly bandwidth allotment. If everyone in your neighbourhood was to use all their monthly available connection your  Internet Service Provider would have on spend money on purchasing additional bandwidth from their “upstream providers”. It is unfortunate that there is not a bandwidth tree you can plant and pick more as you need it. If you owned a bandwidth tree you wouldn’t  need to pay your home internet service provider company for anything. You’d save even more  money.

Sadly,  the reality is that your ISP probably won’t allow you to run a dedicated server on your basic monthly internet connection. Even if you could sneak by their Terms of Service the fact still remains that the one piece of wire running into your home for you internet connection is a single point of failure.  If your home internet connection was ever unavailable your dedicated server would be offline too. The possibility of infrequent temporary outages may seem tolerable if you are a home hobbyist, but if you value always-on reliability for your dedicated servers they will need to have at least two separate connections to the internet.  This fantasy is starting to get expensive. That old computer you were planning on recycling for the project isn’t worth the cost of redundant internet connections.

The dedicated servers in the ‘hood fantasy is starting to get extremely expensive.

There are more downsides, too. If you are planning on using an old computer as a dedicated server leave it in the attic if its processor is slower than a Pentium 4.  Technicalities keep getting in the way of this fantasy. Technically you could hook up any computer to the internet and call it a dedicated server. Be aware that unless it has  at least the power of an Intel Pentium 4 processor in it, that old computer from the attic probably won’t be doing much dedicated-server-type-work for you.

There are many great dedicated server hosting companies that  rent dedicated servers together with fast bandwidth for one low monthly price. Most well established professional dedicated server rental companies have much bigger connections to the internet than are offered to home subscribers. Anyone can throw a server in their basement and call themselves a hosting company. Those people are really just home hobbyists running dedicated servers in the ‘hood. Whatcha gonna do ?

The best solution is to rent a dedicated server from a company like PingPipe that can charge you one low monthly fee for both your dedicated server hardware rental bundled together with its internet traffic. Fortunately for the consumer servers have got more powerful over the past few years and have become relatively less expensive, while internet traffic costs have lowered at the same time. The promotion at PingPipe this month features Quad core servers with 10TB traffic.

Dedicated server hosting doesn’t have to be expensive. There are slashed setup fees and Intel Core 2 Duo processor  dedicated servers with PingPipe starting at just $89 per month

PingPipe hardware purchase packages that include brand new Dell servers for colocation is available in both the US (New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, Miami) and Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver). Colocation is in secure Network Operations Centers with multiple Tier 1 upstream providers.

Operating system technical support is available 24/7 from the PingPipe client area, a three year server hardware warranty is included  with 24/7 on-site Dell Technician service with Emergency dispatch available. This solution is ideal for people who want to own and use brand new dedicated servers.  From a cost-savings standpoint, the longer that you own the servers the lower your monthly costs.

Contact the sales team at PingPipe.com to learn more