Network Information

FastHost.com (www.fasthost.com) is a new alternative in hosting. Utilizing a state-of-the-art Data Center facilities, our customers can receive all the benefits of more expensive hosting services with an extremely competitive pricing plans. The greatest factor in our success is the quality of our network, and this rests on two foundations - structural diversity and technological excellence.

Network and Data Center: FastHost.com utilizes all the services and protection offered within the facility: FM-200 Fire Suppression, Multiple UPS Systems, Backup Diesel Generators, 24-7-365 Network Operations staff ensures the safety and reliability of your services and equipment.

Connectivity: FastHost will offer fast, reliable connectivity to the internet via multiple GigE connections to diverse providers. Making sure your data can be reached, viewed, updated, and accessible with incredible connectivity and network strength.

Backbones and Unreliability

A backbone is a large-scale network, usually one that offers services to other backbones or ISPs. It is standard for a beginning ISP to rely on one backbone provider (such as UUNET, Sprint, or AT&T) for its connection to the rest of the Internet. As the ISP grows, it usually buys more bandwidth from its existing backbone provider. This has the advantage of simplicity and consistency, but it has an unfortunate side effect - the ISP is only as reliable as the backbone provider it has chosen. If the backbone goes down, the ISP and all its users go down with it. Can regional, national and international backbones really be so unreliable? The sad fact is that they can. Even top notch networks occasionally go down because of factors beyond their control. Network outages happen all the time, for varying reasons, and there will probably never be a time when they don't happen. It also happens that backbones, even ones with names you've probably heard of, may not be using the best equipment or the most knowledgeable people to build their networks, even at the national or international levels.

FastHost provides it's customers with redundant connectivity to the Internet via many different backbone providers so if one link goes down, data flow is being automatically re-routed to another backbone provider.

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