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The type of connectivity used can range from a single channel ISDN line to
multiple DS-3 connections. Connectivity is just as important as the servers
used. Without enough bandwidth to serve all clients, all other features
are useless and therefore irrelevant. If download time of your website is
an important consideration (it should be!), then connectivity of the
hosting provider is one of the most important considerations. In summary,
you should never host your website on any connection less than a full T-1
line without redundancy.
Techtrade utilizes 4 separate DS-3 connections to diverse Internet
carriers. Below are our upstream providers and their respective rating
according to BoardWatch Magazine.*
| |
Provider |
Ranking |
| Primary Provider: |
UUNet (MCI/WorldCom) |
#1 |
| Secondary Provider: |
Savvis Communications |
#4 |
| Tertiary Provider: |
Frontier Global Center |
#23 |
| Fourth Provider: |
Sprint Networks |
#15 |
* Data collected independently by Boardwatch
Magazine's Directory of Internet Service
Providers, Volume III, Number 2
(Winter 1998 - Spring 1999), Page 26-29. Copyright MecklerMedia
Corporation.
Redundancy in upstream connections is very important. We have fiber coming
into our facilities from 3 different points of entry. Equally important,
if any one or even two points are cut, the other connection has the
current capacity to transfer all data down the remaining single path.
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