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Jeff Timpe |
High Bandwidth Hosting
High Bandwidth Hosting is a highly competitive industry. In today’s
market, hosting providers typically have to leverage bandwidth as a
major selling point to attract new customers. Some hosting companies
offer a large quantity of bandwidth upfront, but fail to tell
customers how much it would cost to go over their monthly-allotted
bandwidth usage. This “bandwidth overage” can become very expensive
to a customer who has not been educated on how to monitor bandwidth
usage before they signup for hosting services. For some high
bandwidth hosting companies, bandwidth overages can increase
revenues significantly while costing customers hundreds, even
thousands of dollars in added expenses.
At FastServers.Net, we handle high bandwidth hosting differently. We
have an open and honest policy where you are informed upfront about
all your high bandwidth hosting options including where to find the
resources to monitor and set up notifications of your bandwidth
usage, pre-purchase bandwidth upgrades at affordable prices, and
many other highly-competitive advantages. Our “best of breed” high
bandwidth hosting offering features ultra accurate measurements,
one-way traffic count, super flexible pay-as-you-go billing,
up-to-the-minute statistics, and our exclusive “Bandwidth Alert
System.” These are just a few of the features you receive with
FastServers.Net’s high bandwidth dedicated servers.
Take a look at the chart below to see a complete list of high
bandwidth features from FastServers.Net as compared to “The
Competition.”
High Bandwidth Hosting Comparison |
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| FastServers.Net | Competition | |
| Accurate Bandwidth Measurements | Real Time Graphs (RTG) measuring bandwidth on a byte level basis. | Utilizes MRTG based billing with “educated”
guessing on total utilization. |
| One-Way Traffic Count | Measurements are calculated one-way; the greater of your incoming/outgoing is considered total utilization. | Measurements are calculated by adding
incoming and outgoing for total utilization. |
| Pay-as-you-go-billing | Upgrade your bandwidth ‘anytime during the month’ to avoid costly bandwidth overages. | Providers require notification prior to your
monthly billing or long term “Commit” based contracts. Overages are billed at 5-10 times their normal rates. |
| Up-to-the-minute statistics | Bandwidth measurements are made available via
easy-to-read trend graphs and simple text based usage reports. Example Total Monthly Usage: 51.5GB |
Bandwidth measurements often include graphs with
translation of total usage left up to the customer. Example Weekly Usage: 5.2 Mbps |
| Bandwidth Alert System | Easy system that allows you to setup email based
notifications in less than 30 seconds. You simply enter the threshold and email address. If your bandwidth reaches this threshold it automatically emails you. |
Usage and overages are left for you to decipher. This results in the need to check utilization on a daily basis or receive an unexpected bandwidth overage. |
| Low-cost bandwidth upgrades for pre-paid bandwidth. |
$25.00 per 100 GB, which translates into .25 cents per 1 GB of additional usage. |
Industry average is between $2.50-5.00 per GB and requires pre-purchase and long-term commitments. |
| 100Mbps to Gbps Direct Connections. | Provided free with every dedicated server. | Upgrade to 100Mbps requires additional monthly fees. |
Each high bandwidth hosting server at FastServers.Net comes with a
monthly-allocated 1500 GB of bandwidth. With the new Bandwidth Alert
System, you can easily set a threshold and have the system notify
you when the limit you set has been reached. An email will be
dispatched to you automatically with instructions on how to upgrade
your bandwidth before your server goes over the standard 1500 GB of
transfer. It’s easy to setup the Bandwidth Alert System. First,
login to the
pentagon.fastservers.net control panel. Then set the
notification bandwidth limit, enter an email address for
notifications, and click submit. In less than thirty (30) seconds
you will be free to go on about your daily business and the
Bandwidth Alert System will notify you if the limit you set has been
reached.
The FastServers.Net network is powered by direct fiber optics to
major peering points worldwide. Bandwidth is carries over redundant
high speed links directly to a Cisco 12008 GSR located directly in
the data center. High speed distribution takes place utilizing a
combination of Cisco Catalysts 3550 and Cisco Catalyst 2960 Ethernet
switches. All managed dedicated servers are connected at 100MB/s for
the fastest and most direct route out to the Internet.
Take a look at our affordable bandwidth upgrade pricing below:
Additional Bandwidth Pricing for Dedicated
Servers |
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| 100GB | $25.00/mo |
| 200GB | $50.00/mo |
| 300GB | $75.00/mo |
| 400GB | $100.00/mo |
| 500GB | $125.00/mo |
| 600GB | $150.00/mo |
| 700GB | $175.00/mo |
| 800GB | $200.00/mo |
| 900GB | $225.00/mo |
| 1000GB | $250.00/mo |