Datacentre
Class-A Facilities
Snap Hosting servers hum inside a tier-one Verizon-MCI Data Centre in Toronto, Canada, engineered for maximum security and availability. Verizon-MCI owns and manages much of the Internet backbone, giving your site the lowest latency and fastest delivery possible to visitors from around the world.
IBM Xeon Servers
Snap Hosting uses only IBM Xeon servers with ample RAM and CPU headroom, including RAID-configured, SCSI hot-swap hard drives. This built-in redundancy costs more, but allows servers to stay online during drive replacement. Daily backups provide an extra layer of protection.
Firewall
Intelligent Layered Security, including stateful packet inspection to proactively block DoS and DDoS attacks, viruses, spam, worms, spyware, trojans, and blended threats (without relying on signatures for true Zero Day protection) protects our servers and your web site. Target ports are also blocked and cloaked from hackers scanning for exploitation opportunities.
Hosts exhibiting suspicious behavior, such as port scans and Denial of Service attacks, are identified and automatically blocked.
Features
- Reliability and scalability
- Lowest latency possible - "on the Internet backbone"
- No speed limit - bandwidth on demand to Gigabit and beyond
- Outstanding physical security protecting data, web sites and email.
- Redundant connectivity
- Redundancy of all critical facility systems, including
- Fire alarm, smoke detection, and FM-200 gas fire suppression systems
- Megawatt UPS systems
- Dual generator power backup
- HVAC cooling systems for protection of equipment
- Biometric, physical and electronic security measures
Snap Hosting
Snap Hosting, by Xynapse Canada Inc., independently owns and operates the state-of-the-art IBM servers and best-of-breed software that support our clients' live Internet presence.
About Verizon-MCI |
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Verizon-MCI's commitment begins with the ability to leverage their extensive and rigorously-engineered worldwide IP network. This high capacity, fully meshed network provides maximum redundancy and ensures connectivity from end-to-end.
The Verizon-MCI network includes more than 98,000 wholly-owned route miles connecting over 87,000 buildings around the globe, spanning more than 4,500 Points of Presence (POPs) throughout the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with over 3.2 million dial modems. In addition, MCI operates world-class frame relay, ATM, and voice networks with over 2,600 switches.
Verizon-MCI also operates the world's most expansive Internet network, which provides connectivity in over 140 countries and operates at speeds up to OC-192, the fastest available in today's market. Multiple fibre-optic cables span both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They have more than 130 data centers throughout the world.
With the industry's most complete global IP backbone and one of the world's most expansive, wholly-owned data networks, Verizon-MCI develops the converged communications products and services
that are the foundation for commerce and communications in today's market.
To ensure that their networks operate at peak efficiency, Verizon-MCI has five global Network Operations Centers distributed around the world. Skilled technicians at these centers monitor network performance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
For more information about Verizon-MCI, which is an independent public company, see www.mci.com.