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Equipment Racks All of our clients' sites are hosted in state of the art, industrial grade data centers. Not just a PC in someone's basement, but rather serious equipment for safe and reliable service. You can count on Pictor Design's premier SAS-70 data centers, Global Tier-1 network, and more than 15 years of experience with Virtual Private Servers-all backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

The photos in this section show a small part of the equipment used to host our clients' sites. Read on for more technical details and actual data center photos.

Secure Shopping

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You can shop at Pictor Design with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to accept credit cards and electronic check payments safely and securely for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the electronic check and credit card processing networks. See an online payments diagram to see how it works.

The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.

www.pictordesign.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

Last Updated (Monday, 18 October 2010 20:44)

Software

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Since computer hardware is only as good as the software running on it, web sites built by Pictor Design utilize well tested, industry standard software. Starting with the solid foundation of Red Hat Linux we add the Apache web server, one of the most popular and widely used content management systems available, a reliable web mail system and more.

Last Updated (Saturday, 25 September 2010 14:56)

Network Technology

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Since 1994, Pictor Design has been driven to lead the way. In 1996 we chose to partner with a world leader, Verio, for all our internet hosting technology. Today, no other global company can match our partner's portfolio of best in class, most up-to-date Internet technologies.

Last Updated (Friday, 23 December 2011 10:20)

Virtual Private Servers

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EquipmentRackS Our innovative Virtual Private Servers (VPS) offer you the power and control of a dedicated server with the affordability of a shared hosting solution. Virtual Private Servers are ideal for businesses with big needs, small budgets, and limited internal IT resources. Whether it’s adding an intranet or powerful applications like databases and E-commerce, VPS helps you build your business without busting your budget.

'Verio/NTT America Data Center Facility'

VPS combines more than ten years of virtualization experience with the proven stability, performance, and security of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. VPS comes with Apache 2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5. The photos in this section show the actual equipment in the data centers used to host our clients' web sites.

Last Updated (Saturday, 25 September 2010 16:02)