About Us
HostBandit.com located in the 450,000 square foot Los Angeles Carrier Center, where AOL connects to its peers, adjacent to One Wilshire. HostBandit.com provides redundant Gigabit connections to 6 of the world’s leading bandwidth providers - Level 3, Savvis, AT&T, Mzima, Cogent, and XO. HostBandit.com is also connected directly to the PAIX and EQUINIX peering fabric.
HostBandit.com is in the same building used by the nation’s 12 largest Internet providers to cross connect in Los Angeles and is one of the highest quality and most well known carrier facilities in the world. This gives HostBandit.com high security, high speed, and reliability as well as the ability to cross connect with nearly any provider. The data center has all the modern features expected such as redundant Internet connections, redundant emergency power generators, air conditioning, 24-hour on site technicians, 24-hour on site security guards, video survelance, and more.
HostBandit.com provides you with redundant hybrid Gigabit connections to the world’s leading Tier 1 bandwidth providers and operates highly reliable and secure Intel Pentium 4 web servers with RAID hard drive mirroring, 1 GB RAM, FreeBSD/Unix operating system, daily backups, live backup servers, and the DirectAdmin web hosting control panel. Servers are never over stressed and are run at less than 25% of CPU capacity so your web site will allways respond quickly.
Did you know?
” Yahoo Inc. runs the ultimate index of the Internet, serving scads of daily net surfers with information about the World Wide Web. Yahoo, as well the companies that advertise on Yahoo, rely on FreeBSD to run reliable and responsive web servers. ” - FreeBSD.org
Data Center Features
* Located where all Internet fiber-optic cables enter the region, directly on the regional Internet Hub
* In the same building where AOL and 12 of the nation’s largest ISP’s connect to the world
* 24-hour on site security staff
* 24-hour on site technicians
* Full parking facility
* Roof top space
* Two fully redundant risers available for conduit to the grounding facilities in the basement and interconnection with other tenants
* Fully secured facility with three effective levels of perimeter control
* Closed circuit television monitoring of the entire premises
* Cardkey access to all doors and cages
* Indoor generator farm with 17-1500kw generators and remote radiator farm
* 80,000 gallons of generator diesel fuel
* 48 hours of emergency water backup
* Redundant, 24-hour Air Conditioning
* Bus Ducts installed for maximum electric distribution load of 50,000 amps of electricity on diversified routes
* The largest private electrical service vault in the region
* Thorough seismic retrofit including complete shear walls
* Central bus duct provides 100 amps, at 480v-3 phase, for every 1,000 rentable square foot
* Central generator farm designed with N+1 reliability, power brought to every floor via bus ducts
* Easy and direct connectivity with all tenants in building through pre-installed riser systems
* Seismically retrofitted to stringent telecom standards
* Cross connects with nearly any provider
* Other Datacenter tenants include ICG Telecom Group, Inc., 360 Networks, Inc., Southern California Edison, Fibernet Equal Access LLC, Level 3 Communications LLC, Looking Glass Networks, Inc., MFS Worldcom (Metropolitan Fiber Systems), Southern California Edison Company, AT&T / TCG Los Angeles, T-Systems, Verizon, XO, and more.
Web Server And Hardware Features
* Genuine Intel Pentium 4 Web Servers
* FreeBSD/Unix Operating System
* RAID Mirrored Hard Drives
* At Least 1GB RAM
* High Quality Western Digital Hard Drives
* Intel Network Cards
* Daily Backups
* Live Backup Servers
* Redundant Cisco GSR & Juniper Routers
* OC192 Redundant, Multi-homed, Gigabit Connections To Tier 1 Internet Providers (Level 3, Savvis, Williams, Global Crossing, YIPES, and XO)
* Cisco Firewalls
* Redundant Cisco GSR & Juniper Routers
* BGP-4
Why Is This Better?
Because of our location we deliver the fastest and most reliable service possible. Our customers sites are directly on the regional Internet hub. This gives us the shortest possible path to the nation’s largest ISP’s such as AOL, AT&T, and Verizon. In fact we are in the same building as the nation’s 12 largest ISP’s. Imagine walking across the hall and plugging your computer into AOL’s network directly. We can!
HostBandit.com receives an average score of A+ from an independent timing report.
