November 2, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Frontpages Web Hosting Network (FWHN - http://www.fpweb.net) has achieved SAS 70 Type II certification for its datacenter, it was announced recently. The managed hosting and dedicated provider had to pass the scrutiny of a third-party audit to receive the certification.
“It has always been our goal to provide a fast, secure, reliable data center,” explained Rob LaMear, President of FWHN, “but this certification proves that our data center is backed by internal controls that meet the superior standards needed by our federal and compliance regulated customers.”
SAS 70 certification is recognized as one of the highest industry-accepted auditing standards for data centers. The auditing process considers logical and physical access processes and controls, security, backup and recovery, and storage operations. FWHN’s data center is “situated on a dual utility power grid” and utilizes “biometric security” and “redundancy in all critical systems”. The center has a continual rotation of qualified engineers.
FWHN offers managed web hosting services for SharePoint, Exchange and CRM, alongside dedicated server solutions to a global customer base. The company caters for customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the SME (small and medium-enterprise) market.
