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Editor‘s Review for "PEER 1 Dedicated"

PEER1 hosting company provides dedicated servers for more than 10,000 clients located all over the world. The company started its activity in 1999 and since then it has developed into a large business with about 350 employees and locations in several states in US and Canada.

The 16 data centres hold by the company located in Europe and North America provide a reliable hosting service giving the best option for the customer to choose from with regard to his website profiles. The price for a self-managed server plan starts at $75 per month one of the most attractive offers for business owners and large business sites.

With more than 10 years on the hosting providers market PEER1 claims to have reached the top 5 five hosting providers fin the world. Truth or not, you will have to judge it yourself. We can only say that this company really offers a very good experience when it comes to hosting services and to support of your problems related to account management.

The new customer has the option to choose from 2 different scalable hosting plans which are built for those who prefer AMD processors as well as for those who prefer Intel processors. Each of these options offers the top quality hardware equipment along with large storage capacity for your site information. The hosting company also offers a series of helpful add-ons and a VIP hosting plan for you to get the best hosting experience of your life.

The unique features include;

• A simplified running online base,
• With only $259 the client has the possibility to access the Value Pro Hosting Managed Plan,
• Receive a fully managed backup,
• Free scanning for vulnerabilities

Key Features

• The guarantee of your hardware replacement within 1 hour in case of troubles,
• Complete Systems Planning
• A large range of Managed Services,
• Huge number of add-ons,
• An amazing number of 8,500 servers available for you.

Editors' Comments

PEER 1 company has a successful history in providing based hosting services and dedicated hosting services. Initially the business was started in Canada by a group of enthusiasts and year after year the company has developed into one of the leading hosting providers in Canada expanding itself on the neighbor countries. PEER1 became one of the most important hosting companies in all the North America and Europe was next target to conquer. In 2005 an important acquisition was made by buying the dedicated servers of the company Interland. The overall server base of PEER1 at that time counted 15,000 servers located on North American territory.

An important number of Toer-1 companies and businesses have hosting accounts at PEER1. Here they can benefit of a series of innovative applications which are supposed to deliver a faster and simpler hosting service to the customers.

Uptime Guarantee

One of the main guarantees that a customer will receive when signing up for a hosting account is the 100% service uptime. The company also has one of the lowest latency levels in the industry.

The basic information a customer should know.

DataCenter

PEER 1 has a total of 15 data centers located all over North America and dedicated server locations in Miami, FL; Fremont, CA and Atlanta, GA. The network links all the facilities together with very high speed connections. More than 500 networks and four upstream providers such as MCI, AT&T, Savvis, and Sprint are included in this system. The network provider for PEER1 is the famous IT company CISCO using a Hot Standard Router Protocol as well as a very fast Ethernet speed of 1000 Mb per second.

Power Management

The customers have a guarantee from PEER1 that the power supply will never go down keeping all the system 100% operational all the time. In order to be sure of their promises PEER1 has its own unit of power supply with uninterruptible generator in order to create the energy needed for the system. In addition to this power backup there is an environment protection system called HVAC which provides an optimum humidity control by filtering the air in the server rooms.

Physical Security

PEER1 provides 24/7 detailed system monitoring with its specially trained staff for these operations. The company professionals will notice if something is not working as it should and fix the problem in the shortest possible time range. Some of the standard measurement equipments that are used on a daily bases include biometric had-scanning, closed circuit surveillance systems and special controllers.

Server Access by Customer

Only the senior technicians of the company have full access in the server rooms.

Root Access: The dedicated servers are allowed for root access.

The types of services which are offered include;

General Managed Services - Bundles

The customer at PEER1 can choose out of 5 different hosting plans; there is the Business Series Basic with an Intel P4 3.0 Ghz processor with 1 GB RAM, 2 X 250 GB hard drives, DC Series Premium with a Dual AMD Opteron 265-Dual Core processor with 2 GB RAM, 3 X 73 GB SCSI hard drives, RAID 1 hardware, RAID 1, 5, and 10 hardware, and an optional 64-bit system setup. Every plan offers 1 terabyte data transfers available monthly for you to use however you like.

When you choose your dedicated hosting plan you can pick up some of the numerous add-ons which will certainly make your managing process a lot more simple and easy. You have some of the great tools at your disposal to handle your account operations; MS SQL server licenses, your own Content Delivery Network, Plesk 7.5 control panel for Linux or Windows, data backup services, managed firewalls, managed support, prepaid data transfer blocks, advanced system monitoring and web analytics.

The client can also request a security scan from the PEER1 professional trained staff. Other additional services are installation and configuration of third party mail software, enhanced security audit and OS reprovision.

Security and Updates

If you agree to pay an extra fee you can get access to Advanced System Monitoring features which have a lot of interesting possibilities such as SNMP monitoring and support of the protocols HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and SQL availability, CPU and network interface utilization, available disk partition storage space and physical free memory. All the information is available for being exported in PDF files or TXT files for you to review afterwards.

Firewall

A firewall option is available to be installed depending on the amount of IPs you your site will have to handle. The network security service at PEER1 will install for you this feature and will guide you into all the technical details of using it.

Backup Services

The backup service store all your website data in a secure place of the data center where is not threatened of any physical of virtual danger. This offers the guarantee that your data will not be damaged by any means.

Vendor Statement:

"Our main concern is the customer satisfaction and we put all our efforts to create a fast and easy hosting service to get along with for our clients. We always are looking for the best specialists we can find and try to build up their nice attitude towards the customer. We feel very motivated when a customer expresses his gratitude and satisfactions about our service…"

Customer Testimonials

"I highly appreciate the PEER1 dedicated hosting service because the offer the fastest service and the best performance in the industry which make me to be very satisfied to be their customer. "

- Robert Pellini, President, Leetservers.com

"Being a client of this hosting service has offered a lot of advantages to my company. They have a lot of helpful features which makes me very happy to be their customer."

- Loreta Arnold, Owner, Silvermessages.com

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