123 Internet are partnered with Chicago's premier hosting provider, providing reliable, scalable solutions for customers of all sizes and services. Located in the carrier-neutral Equinix Chicago Data Center, 123 Internet has access to all the major carriers in Chicago without the need for local loop circuits.

Current Network Connections:
    * AAPT
    * Adelphia
    * Ameritech
    * Asia Global Crossing
    * AT&T
    * Big Pipe (Shaw Fiber)
    * BT Ignite
    * Cable & Wireless
    * China Telecom
    * Comcast
    * Cox Communications
    * DACOM America
    * Deutsche Telekom
    * Earthlink
    * France Telecom
    * Genuity
    * Global Crossing
    * IIJ America
    * Internap
    * Japan Telecom
    * KDDI America
    * Level 3
    * Looking Glass Networks
    * MFN
    * MSN
    * Pacific Bell
    * OnFiber
    * Optus
    * Qwest
    * Reach Services
    * SBC
    * SingTel
    * Sprint
    * ST Teleport
    * Telstra
    * Telus
    * Tiscali
    * UUNET
    * Verio
    * Verizon
    * Wiltel
    * WorldCom

Global Enterprises, Service Providers, and Content Companies Using Datacenter:
    * About.com
    * Adobe
    * Accenture
    * Akamai
    * Aleron
    * DoubleClick
    * Electronic Arts
    * General Electric
    * Google
    * Hines
    * Hotwire
    * IBM
    * Kontiki
    * Kyocera
    * Loral Cyberstar
    * Micron Technology
    * Nortel / Kidz Online
    * PayPal
    * Radio Free Virgin
    * Royal & Sun Alliance
    * SIAC
    * Sony Online Entertainment
    * Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive
    * WebUseNet

The Space
Our datacenter facilities are provided by Equinix (www.equinix.com) and SARA Computing (www.sara.nl), and represent the finest space available in each market worldwide. These datacenters have been designed and operated to satisfy even the most discriminating customers.

    * N+1 UPS and generator redundancy at every site
    * Biometric locks on all facility doors
    * 24x7 security staff onsite
    * Individually locking cabinets
    * Several hundred cameras with long-term digital recording at each site

The Network
Connectivity is completely redundant, right up to the point of delivery to customers. Traffic is routed through Juniper edge routers and aggregated using Cisco core switches. We participate in extensive public and private peering using the Equinix Peering Exchange and the AMS-IX Internet Exchange. Our private optical IP backbone connects all of our network PoPs to ensure the most efficient routing of traffic between customer equipment and its destination.

The Servers
Every server we sell is professionally built using quality components and can be customized to meet every customer's unique requirements. We keep several entire systems on hand and earmarked as cold spares, and an extensive inventory of replacement parts to keep our servers up and available.

The People
Our Chicago-based staff is dedicated to the success of your business. With technicians onsite 24/7, HostForWeb is always available via telephone and email to handle customer inquiries and service requests. Some of the qualities we seek and promote in our technicians include:

    * Customer-centric, positive attitude and work ethic
    * Experience building and troubleshooting PC hardware
    * Experience in a datacenter environment (structured cabling, rackmount hardware)
    * Experience with Unix-based and Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems
    * Advanced understanding of IP networks ("how it works")

Our on line Control Panel allows you to automatically control your web site without any knowledge of programming! You can install discussion boards and guest books in seconds and take complete control of all your e-mail or access your webstats to check on the number of visits to your website.

You can upgrade your account at anytime with 123 Internet should you wish to increase your web space and/or data transfer, but unfortunately we can’t downgrade your account or offer a refund of any kind. Extra bandwidth will be charged at the rate of 10p per MB.

Packages are taken out for a one year period, refunds cannot be made under any circumstances due to the already very competitive priced packages that we have on offer.

PLEASE NOTE ALL FEES FOR HOSTING ARE PAYABLE ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE, DOMAIN NAMES ARE PAYABLE TWO YEARS IN ADVANCE, ALL EXTRAS ARE PAYABLE WHEN ORDERED.

VPS
Virtual private servers are a perfect solution for popular sites, a large company, an online mall, or reseller/presence providers. VPSs are based on the concept of partitions on mainframes that allow dozens of divisions to run multiple applications on the same server with advanced resource scheduling. VPSs advance the concepts of the mainframe with dynamic fair-sharing of system resources on commodity operating systems and hardware. VPSs behave exactly like an isolated stand-alone server. VPS server itself, will run on atleast DUAL XEON 3.06 GHZ 533FSB HT (4CPU), DUAL CORE AMD OPTERON 265, Dual LowVoltage XEON 2.00Ghz, 8GB-16GB RAM, (6) 73GB SCSI 10K RPM Ultra 320 Hot-Swap Drives in a RAID5 format. Daily tape backup is running on VPS servers.

Dedicated Servers
Dedicated servers are a perfect solution for popular sites, a large company, an online mall, or reseller/presence providers. Hosting services on a shared server are sometimes not enough to allow you the kind of control, configuration, power, and accessibility that you require. When such is the case, you need to consider a dedicated server solution. You can fully control account setups, software installations, user modifications, and data backups. For a lower price than some web hosting companies' larger packages, with 123 INTERNET you can operate your own dedicated server!