Hostopia provides web and email hosting services to telcos, ISPs, cable companies and domain registrars. "You cannot be more mission critical than providing service to service-providers, as we do," says Franc Nemanic, Hostopia's president. "The extreme mission-criticality of our business puts Hostopia at the top of the managed service food chain. The new IDC is the perfect infrastructure center to serve this class of clientele."

Bill Campbell, Hostopia's CTO elaborates, "Our new center was built to the latest standards of network connectivity, bandwidth availability, security and service continuity. Our move of over 200 partners and tens of thousands of websites was accomplished without downtime or incident over a weekend."

Hostopia's new data center is connected to a Tier 1 North American network via direct OC-192 (10 gigabit) connectivity to the backbone. The center boasts strict environmental controls, triple-level physical security and robust logical security. Fire suppression is state-of-the-art and smoke detection can scan particles to 3 parts per million. Power is redundant with multiple diesel and battery generated backup power supplies.

Nemanic adds, "Offering outsourced hosting services to service providers takes uptime needs to a new level - especially when the applications include site hosting, e-commerce applications and business email. Our new data center bulletproofs an already enviable reliability record to the extent that no telco, CLEC, ISP or cable company would hesitate outsourcing its customer applications to us. We now operate on the same facilities-based carrier standards that they do, enhanced by our expertise in Internet hosting."

The network operations move from Hostopia's own premises to the new center enables Hostopia to continue its high growth as a global hosting provider while enjoying improved reliability.