Premium Web Application and Email Hosting

Why We're In The Hosting Business :
We create web applications for ourselves and for our clients, and there came a point in the recent past when we took the leap to begin maintaining our own systems. Control over our own systems, the ability to maintain our high standards for our infrastructure needs, and the desire to do it all properly the first time around. There are cheaper providers out there, but we doubt there are better ones.

A Recipe for Success :
There would be no point in us bothering with an endeavour like web and email hosting at the level our customers have come to expect from us unless we did everything top of the line. Our recipe for hosting success and reliability includes only the finest ingredients :

• High performance storage, stability and reliability using HP / Compaq enterprise-grade servers
• Command and control of all domain features using Plesk's full-featured "PSA" control panel software
• SPAM and virus filtering using Barracuda's dedicated filtering solution
• Proven platforms built on FreeBSD UNIX operating systems

Location, Location, Location :
Our equipment is owned entirely by us, located in our own cabinet, in the state-of-the-art secured datacentre at 151 Front Street West in Toronto, Ontario. The facility and upstream providers are top-notch, and we pay more to ensure we get more. If the devil really is in the details, you might say we're devil worshippers (figuratively, of course).

Some Thoughts On The Hosting Business :
We have seen a lot of hosting companies come and go over the past few years. Many of the people claiming to offer services of this nature are simply resellers trying to make a percentage by selling someone else's services. Who's really in control there? Where do your calls really end up when you need help or system status updates? Can they provide enough horsepower for demanding dynamic content applications or the latest database-driven websites?

If I Wanted Mickeymouse, I'd Go To Florida :
Forget those other companies with eighty-five different hosting plans. Forget silly and arbitrary limits on the simple things that make your online email and web presences shine. It still boggles our mind that with the internet part of mainstream life for more than a decade now, most people still can't receive email attachments larger than two megabytes in size, even under some of the supposed top-tier providers.

The Straight Truth :
What good is it when a hosting company offers you gigabytes of disk space, but not enough bandwidth to serve any of that massive content to your customers? What use are advertised offers of thousands of gigabytes of bandwidth transfer per month if your web application or hosting server resources would experience meltdown before being able to serve that many requests? Big numbers may look impressive on paper (or on-screen), but reliability and consistency tend to impress more when you have systems or applications that matter. Ask us how we can use our experience and resources to help you succeed (and sleep at night).

Should you require further information, or to inquire about how Mercenary Consultants can help your business, please contact us.