As a true leader in the web hosting industry, ThinkHost started with, and still employs, a different approach to dealing with growth. We invented our Hosting Genius program, which allows us to maintain the highest level of reliability and security, while keeping our maintenance and upkeep costs low. This allows us to offer a high level of quality and reliability at very reasonable prices.

Our approach is very simple - instead of constantly acquiring additional servers, which would prevent us from quickly rolling out software updates and security patches, we simply upgrade and expand a very small server farm of custom-configured servers as our needs grow. 

As of March 2006, the configuration of our primary server (Socrates) is as follows:

CPU: Pentium 4 2.8GHz 
RAM: 2 GB 
HD 2: Western Digital WD2500JD/SATA 250GB 7200RPM 
OS: FreeBSD 5.x 

Our other servers:

Athena

CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 GHz 
RAM 2 GB Hynix DDR 266 ECC 
HD 2 * Western Digital WD2500JD/SATA 250GB 7200RPM 
OS FreeBSD 5.x 

Plato

CPU: Pentium 4 2.8GHz 
RAM: 1 GB 
HD: 2 * Western Digital WD2500JD/SATA 250GB 7200RPM 
OS FreeBSD 5.x 

Zeno

CPU: Pentium 4 3.06GHz 
RAM: 2 GB 
HD: 2 * Seagate SATA 250 GB RAID 1
       1 * Seagate SATA 250 GB backup drive 
OS: FreeBSD 5.x 

Mail servers

CPU: Celeron 2.4 Ghz 
RAM: 1 GB Hynix DDR 266 ECC 
HD: Seagate ST380011a/IDE 80GB 7200RPM 
OS: FreeBSD 

The memory and disk space capacities of our servers are monitored around the clock, and expanded as the need arises. The same automatic monitoring also keeps a constant watch on all processes running on the system to minimize the risk of any single site can pulling the entire server down.