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If you are shopping for
isps make sure you demand the following features to get maximum performance
from your web account. We expect nothing less than the following when
we purchase hosting. You should too.
Apache web server
Unix Operating System
Perl 5 and standard perl 5 libraries installed
Support for installing perl modules provided
Sendmail
Server sides includes allowed
Ability to run scripts outside of the cgi-bin
A real "script-aliased" cgi-bin
Ability to create directories and files outside of your html directories
(below local root)
Ability to write to files with cgi scripts
.htaccess supported
Ability to chmod your logfiles to 666 or 777
Ability to run duplicate logfiles
Ability to run combined access/referral logs
DO NOT use ISPs that use webshells
DO NOT use ISPs that use cgi-wrap
Do NOT use FREE hosting companies - although many support BASIC cgi,
they do not support many perl libraries that are common
MYSQL supported
DBI/mysql supported
SSLEAY supported - otherwise anyone can intercept your merchant account
information and DRAIN your bank account
Host4profit,
your ecommerce solution,
specializes in virtual servers webhosting, unix servers,
domains, webspace, money making websites for resellers
Host4Profit.com's
Network Operations Center in Baltimore, Maryland is "OnNet" with Frontier
Global Center (FGC), which means that we have a direct fiber optic connection
between our Cisco 7200 router and theirs. Being OnNet with a Tier-1
provider means that we don't link to a backbone, we are actually on
a backbone. We have no phone circuit, and do not use a Telecom link
to get to the Internet; instead, we have an in-house connection directly
to FGC's ATM fiber node, located a few floors below our servers in the
same building. This fiber optic line can handle the bandwidth of a T3
or an OC3, and with FGC's Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology,
it can handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3.
MULTIPLE BACKBONES:
We share the digital distribution architecture of FGC, which is comprised
of more than 25 high-speed private peering connections to major Internet
carriers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, AT&T, AOL, Best, Erols, and
others. FGC also has high-speed links to 8 public exchanges including
both MAE East and West and several NAPS. To use an analogy, the private
peering connections allow data to travel from New York to LA on a non-stop
flight, while the public exchanges require a stop over.
Route Optimization:
We have a large investment in BGP (Border Gate Protocol) technology,
which allows the traffic to your site to travel more efficiently by
finding the best route for data to travel. On a typical server the traffic
always takes the same route from client to server. For them, if there
is a bad node, traffic does not get through at all. Because we use BGP
protocol, different and more efficient routes are taken between client
and server depending on traffic loads and broken nodes. This means our
servers automatically look for the fastest route available.
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