techDIGITS has performed extensive research and chose to provide our clients with the best that a hosting facility can offer.  We chose to use Rackspace to co-locate our web servers along with the web servers of Bob Vila's home improvement website bobvila.com, The Ultimate Home Improvement web site.  What does this mean to your small business? This means that you recieve the same high
quality network and servers that many of the largest websites utilize.

Zero-Downtime Network™
The Rackspace network has been engineered from the ground up to accommodate the high-availability demands of our customers' mission-critical Web applications. The Rackspace Cisco-powered, Zero-Downtime Network™ has unique self-healing attributes that allow them to deliver on our 100% infrastructure availability guarantee.

Rackspace doesn’t rely on any single connectivity provider. Instead, they employ a multi-provider strategy. This offers benefits over simply partnering with one network carrier. Working with multiple network carriers creates natural redundancy in our network architecture and ensures that packets can leave our network from multiple points. Additionally, if one or more providers experience congestion or downtime, traffic can be rerouted through other network partners until the issue is solved.

Beyond simply providing redundancy in case a particular provider experiences downtime, our proprietary networking technology allows our network operations team to actively probe the public Internet for packet loss and latency and automatically reroutes traffic around these areas. This ensures that traffic leaving the Rackspace network is not bound for a part of the public Internet that is heavily congested.

Guaranteed Packet Delivery
Rackspace providers are paid to make sure that packets of information are delivered quickly and efficiently to your end users. This offers significant advantages over simply peering with the major backbones. Peering agreements rarely include Service Level Agreements (SLAs) so no one is accountable for lost packets at congested exchange points. Because Rackspace has SLAs with all of their network partners, Rackspace is able to guarantee that all packets will leave their network at full speed.

Bandwidth Utilization
Rackspace's substantial bandwidth capacity allows them to accommodate even the largest spikes in traffic. To ensure rapid delivery of content, Rackspace continuously adds network connectivity and new routes. Low bandwidth utilization allows for maximum uptime, even if multiple transit partners experience simultaneous outages.

Managed SLA
Rackspace works closely with leading telecommunications providers to build and maintain their world-class network

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