Our Network

SecureWebs is not a new hosting company so we have at one time or another worked with just about any Provider you may have heard about. MCI/Worldcom, Global Frontier and others, many that no longer exist. We have made network mistakes by using incompetent Providers, the last one being XO. They once had a superior network and slowly started to self destruct, a process that is still transforming a fine backbone Provider to a worse than mediocre Provider that is rife with bureaucratic in-house fighting and changes that leave their customers wondering what they could have been thinking. We no longer will have anything to do with them. Fortunately the quality of backbone Providers is better than ever and we have located the best of the best.

BGP4 (Border Gateway Protocol) is a router technology that is essential so that if one network has a crisis they are quarantined and business continues for everyone else. Happily we are now using a fantastic trio of quality backbone Providers and should anything happen to one of them the speed of your service will not be affected. Any one of them can carry the entire load. Now that we are building some of the world’s fastest solid-state servers, we are not willing to have them slowed down by second rate backbone Providers.

Handling the bulk of our traffic are backbone providers Level 3, Abovenet, Sprint and Savvis. In addition we have another 90+ peering relationships that can help provide the shortest routes possible. All of these come to us via the country’s most wired city, Seattle, Washington, a crown once held by Atlanta. Forbes annual list of the 30 most connected cities in US has Seattle in the number one spot which makes their “meeting room” a great place to connect to other networks.

SecureWebs is enjoying the best quality of connectivity we have ever had as a business. Our network no longer uses copper except for the actually server Cat6 patch cables. In fact we relocated the data center in 2007 just so we could replace our dedicated circuits like T3′s (traditional local copper network lines) with all fiber connections that have no limit on the available bandwidth. This allows us to service any number of high bandwidth clients providing streaming services for audio, video, loading graphics and insuring overall quicker website response time.