We use a dedicated dual Pentium III 800 web server running Linux. It's located in a climate controlled room in Dallas, Texas and connected to a backbone of 4 OC3 lines. Linux is widely respected as the most stable web server operating system available, and we use the most widely used web server software on the Internet, Apache. We've only had one hour of downtime in the past year.

Are you wondering why the server is in Texas when IWD is in Northern Minnesota? There are many advantages to our co-location arrangement. First of all, Dallas has many more high speed connections than Ely Minnesota (or anywhere near it). This way, your site loads faster and there are many pipelines available so if one goes down, our server (and your site) is still up and running. This arrangement also allows us to take advantage of the high quality climate control and power back-up that wouldn't make sense for just one server. We save a lot of money by sharing these ammenities with many other servers - and pass those savings on to you with affordable hosting prices.