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Bsleek is able to provide a secure physical and technical operating environment by purchasing disk space and bandwidth from a highly specialized hosting reseller who excels at providing rock-solid hardware/software, website management tools, monitoring and top-tier support. Since they focus like a laser on maintaining the hardware and software infrastructure, Bsleek is able to focus almost exclusively on customer satisfaction, quality and diversity of services.
We co-locate our hardware in the world-class Net Access Corporation (NAC) datacenter with multiple tier one backbone providers including Level3, AboveNet, UUNET, InterNAP, Genuity and over 300 peering points and transit providers spanning three countries within North America and Europe.
NAC stretches from Massachusetts and Washington DC to London, UK. The greatest factor in their success is the quality of the network, and this rests on two foundations - structural diversity and technological excellence (read below for an in depth explanation).
This cutting-edge approach allows Bsleek to deliver high quality and affordable hosting solutions to small and medium-sized businesses and individuals around the world, focusing primarily on their hosting and creative needs, and not on data management. We are thus able to provide our clients with the very best hosting experience available through unparalleled customer care, delivering affordable services, real honesty and integrity, and progressivly modern, state-of-the-art technology.
Why host with Bsleek and not directly with a data center or hosting reseller?
Because with Bsleek you are a big fish in a small pond, not a small fish in an ocean.
At Bsleek, we carefully screen the clients who host with us and walk them through every step of the way. As a Bsleek client, you also have access to our entire gamma of corportae id services, from logo design, website creation to CD-ROM business cards, promotional items, and everything is tied into your web presence. We also care about your company's presence and performance with the search engines and your overall satisfaction. Also, we host your websites and web applications on the same exact servers we host our own business. It is in our own interest to have the best and the most reliable data management, and we pass this directly to you, our client. If you host with a mega data center company or a hosting reseller, like Network Solutions, Hostway, GoDaddy, Yahoo, 1and1, iPowerWeb and many others, you will be one of their tens of millions of customers, and will be treated as such. Bsleek is a small (and growth oriented) business, so every client is important to us in every way.
NAC's Solution to the Unreliable Internet Service Provider (ISP) model
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.
NAC's response - Structural Diversity
NAC started in 1995 as an ISP with a single connection to the Internet via one backbone provider. As they grew, instead of buying larger access to a single provider, they started to inter-connect with many other backbone providers, and other Internet Service Providers as well. In fact, with their recent service extension to London, NAC is now an international backbone provider itself.
NAC's response - Technological Excellence
NAC realized early on that the best networks are made with top-grade equipment and skilled network engineers. This seems like a simple observation, but it is surprising how many companies either overlook it or decide that it's safe to economize. Economy is always nice until your network goes down, at which point you are likely to lose many times the money you saved.
NAC uses quality network hardware and their technicians work around the clock, using such technologies as ATM and BGP dynamic routing to ensure that all systems run efficiently and smoothly.
The state of the art NAC datacenter features high level security, raised flooring, climate-control, UPS power supply, fire suppression system as well as multiple redundant connections. NAC connects to Internet backbones at their redundant data centers in Northern NJ and NYC, linking directly to most of the major networks, including Sprint, UUNET, Cable & Wireless, AOL, Level 3, and many others. The NAC datacenter is also equipped with backup batteries and diesel generators, Cisco routers and switches. All servers are secured in a state of the art Smart POP (Points Of Presence); monitored by both on hand technicians, IP cameras and door security via Hand geometry reader.
The NAC datacenter is staffed 24x7 by qualified system administrators and engineers. All NAC Centers use industry-standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) with round-the-clock monitoring of all hardware, including routers, switches, UPS systems, and servers. The NAC also monitors power, environmental factors (such as temperature and humidity), generator status, and network connectivity. All critical services/ports are monitored, including FTP, HTTP, SMTP, HTTPS, SSH and POP3.
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