Co-location / Collocation

Co-location is a service whereby a hosting provider places customer owned equipment within a data center in order to provide industrial grade air conditioning, security, fire suppression, and most importantly high capacity, reliable internet access.

Managed Hosting

Managed hosting involves a hosting solution provider housing network and computer equipment for the dedicated use of a customer and managing the hardware, operating systems and software being hosted. HostVentures managed hosting provides 24/7/365 monitoring and problem resolution, installing security patches and operating system updates, monitoring capacity and load of the equipment, performance tuning and advising the customer regarding any potential improvements that could increase capacity or improve reliability and performance of the systems.

What is a "U"? (Unit of measurement for Collocation)

1U = 1.75" of Vertical Rack Space
2U = 3.5" of Vertical Rack Space
3U = 5.25" of Vertical Rack Space
4U = 7.00" of Vertical Rack Space.

MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher)

A tool used to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. Here is a sample of an MRTG graph:

95th Percentile Explained

Samples of your actual bandwidth usage are taken every five minutes from your VLAN port on the switch. The program then averages the totals and posts the result as a five-minute usage point on your report. Over the month, we will continue to plot the five-minute averages, which total about 8,640 points plotted on the graph.

We then take the top five percent of your usage (432 points, or 36 hours) and throw it out!

Your usage is determined based upon the highest remaining usage plotted. This method of billing provides you with a number of advantages. Any usage bursts that are atypical of your bandwidth requirements are not charged to you, and this equates to receiving approximately your highest 32 hours of bandwidth usage free each month.

We then give you access via the web to view your Daily, Weekly, Monthly and MRTG graph reports at any time. If your package(s) include a specific amount of bandwidth, any overage(s) will be billed at your contracted rate at end of the calendar month.

HostVentures's dedicated-based bandwidth is a burstable access, which uses the "sustained usage" formula to determine the monthly access rate. At the end of each month of service, the 95th percentile is determined as the "sustained usage rate" using the readings taken every 5 minutes, which are placed in ascending order.