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Welcome to DILIGENThost.com
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:: Information about our premier datacenter ::
Located at 1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque, still known as La Tour IBM-Marathon, is a 199 m, 47-story skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As of 2005, it is the second-tallest in the city, behind the nearby 1000 de La Gauchetière, which was completed the same year (1992). Despite being 6 m shorter than 1000 de La Gauchetière, it is built on higher ground and thus also reaches the maximum allowed elevation from sea level (that of Mount Royal). The building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates for IBM Canada and Marathon Realty, hence the former name "IBM-Marathon." It is now named for its address at 1250 René Lévesque Boulevard West, in the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal. It is adjacent to the Bell Centre and Windsor Station to the south, and is also connected to the Bonaventure metro station and the underground city network.
Our datacenter's dedicated Internet access and data center outsourcing solutions, network and co-location facilities have been designed and tested to be fully fault-tolerant from a customer's perspective and to deliver the highest possible performance in hosting directly on the Internet backbone. A failure affecting backbone connections, multiple upstream provider connections, or a data center equipment service will have no impact on customer performance. Our internal networks are 100% Cisco-powered, taking advantage of the state-of-the-art fail-over capabilities of Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) to guarantee that, in the event of a router port failure, a hot standby router automatically takes over to provide on-going service.
It also offers state of the art redundant electrical power and HVAC systems as well as multi layered security and CCTV systems, along with uninterruptible and back-up power, raised & anti-static flooring, seismically-braced server racks, redundant Internet connections with 24-hour monitoring, and state-of-the-art fire suppression and environmental controls for your ultimate peace of mind.
We are running a premium BGP of Peer1, Teleglobe, Videotron & Level3, and also has multiple peering agreements to provide customers with fully-operational networks designed to handle the demand of the most latency-sensitive applications. Network peering is a relationship between two or more networks of any size in which the networks create a direct connection between each other and agree to expand the Internet backbone. Peering has two main benefits: first, it reduces latency between networks and second, it avoids additional costs associated with other third-party networks.
Our route diversity is a key component in ensuring that Internet connectivity for all clients is fast and always available, enabling customer traffic to be routed over the most efficient path. Since transmission speed is always a major factor in data telecommunication, having thousands of Internet routes always available to handle all types of data is definitely an advantage.
Our Network Operations Center is staffed 24x7 by Unix Systems Administrators, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers, hardware experts, network engineers, programmers, and applications specialists.
Custom made monitoring and control software which will alert our NOC engineers by cellular phone, 2-way pager and email whenever a problem is detected by the auto-scripts. Often, a problem with the Server is corrected within minutes, if not seconds, from the time it occurred. Our proprietary software monitors the following ports and automatically restarts each service if it is not detected within 10 seconds: web traffic (port 80), POP3 email (port 110), outgoing email (port 25), telnet (port 23), ftp (port 21), secure server (port 443), real audio (port 8080 and port 7777), and other vital connectivity ports. Every 10 seconds our engineers get print-outs of any ports that did not respond and that could not be restarted automatically.
We have taken every step possible to ensure continued and uninterrupted operation of our servers: multi-homed single-mode fiber Gbits connections to diverse backbone providers, diesel-powered generators, redundant UPS systems, and on-hand inventory of hard drives, memory chips, network cards, motherboards, power supplies, processors, RAM and other hardware components.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 September 2008 )
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