Hosting
Website Hosting
For nearly 12 years, DDM has been developing and producing custom websites and interactive tools.
In a strategic effort to be more responsive and flexible, DDM began hosting some of its clients’ web sites almost 10 years ago. Direct access to and control of the web servers enables customization which helps us meet unique client needs and makes for an efficient site development.
DDM uses an extremely secure web server environment containing the following components/attributes:
- multi-node server farm on redundant IBM servers
(161 KB, PDF) - common Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP environment
- generator backup power
- redundant internet connections (10Mb/s primary)
- nightly backups to offsite/failover location
- weekly tape backups to maintain a 6-month archive
Many of DDM’s interactive clients use DDM’s custom content management system (CMS) to power their websites. This custom CMS was created fill the gaps left by other systems; designed to be extremely flexible, accommodate search engine bots, and produce modern, CSS-based code.
