Host Europe, one of Europe's leading internet hosting providers to the SME market, is pleased to announce that it is now a full member of The London Internet Exchange (LINX), an alliance of Internet Service Providers enabling the exchange of internet traffic.
Membership of LINX will allow Host Europe to reap the benefits of greater interconnectivity with other members of the UK’s Internet infrastructure, which will result in a significant improvement in systems performance.
Interconnectivity is achieved via co-operative peering arrangements with other LINX members, and Host Europe has already agreed partnerships with several key industry players including Microsoft, NTL, Telewest Broadband and Yahoo! Europe, and negotiations with several other companies are continuing.
Tim Beresford, Chief Technology Officer, commented:
“Host Europe has always prided itself on providing excellent levels of service, and joining LINX gives us the ability to improve even further. As well as taking comfort in the knowledge that they are backed by a robust service level agreement and state-of-the-art technology in our data centres, our customers will enjoy faster access speeds as a result of our peering arrangements within LINX.
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For further information:
http://www.hosteurope.com
http://www.linx.net
Catherine Widdowson, PR/Marketing Executive
John Kirkham, Marketing Manager
0115 918 5077
catherine.widdowson@hosteurope.com
john.kirkham@hosteurope.com
Notes to Editors:
Host Europe PLC owns and trades under the following brands:
§ 'Dedicated Servers' (www.dedicated-servers.co.uk) - high-end dedicated servers on multiple platforms, managed services and server co-location;
§ 'Magic Moments' (www.magic-moments.com) - Internet hosting services to the UK's SME market;
§ 'WebFusion' (www.webfusion.co.uk) - Internet hosting services to the UK's SME market;
§ '123-reg' (www.123-reg.co.uk) - low-cost domain name and e-mail services;
§ 'Host Europe' - Internet hosting services to the European SME sector (Germany and France); and
§ 'eliteSERVERS' (www.elite-servers.net) - Internet hosting services in the USA.
Host Europe is one of Europe's leading dedicated Internet hosting companies. It provides a comprehensive range of services including shared server hosting, dedicated servers, managed services, server co-location, global domain name registration and a bespoke range of e-services, to SMEs.
Its hosting solutions are all serviced from Host Europe's facilities, with multiple connections to the Internet and 24/7 technical support ensuring industry leading levels of reliability and quality of service.
Host Europe is the clear leader in the European dedicated server and co-location market with over 3,200 machines hosted in its data centres. The Company also manages over 285,000 domain names and hosts over 64,000 virtual server accounts for over 55,000 customers (figures as at December 31 2001).
