For schools that choose our fully hosted service, Scholastic Communications provides world-class, state-of-the-art hosting facilities in order to deliver the safest and most reliable experience possible. Even for large districts, Scholastic Communications pricing is only a fraction of what schools would pay just to maintain their own comparable infrastructure.
Scholastic Communications hosting facilities are unsurpassed. Our infrastructure includes:
- A state-of-the-art, world-class servers consisting of multiple redundant web servers with redundant, adaptive, dynamic load balancing.
- 1,000 MB high-speed fiber trunk that connects Scholastic Communications directly into the heart of the global Internet backbone. NewNet66 managed schools will have direct access to their websites.
- The most advanced firewall technology available, monitored 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
- Multiple, redundant copies of all data made in real time, and archived backups created hourly.
- HVAC temperature control systems with separate cooling zones, and state-of-the-art smoke detection.
- UPS and fully redundant power with backup generators eliminate the threat of power blackouts.
