Yesterday morning, at approximately 9am, workers for the City of Toronto accidentally cut a main Internet cable for Allstream.  Crews are working to temporarily fix this cable, and in the meantime our systems, which are directly affected by this accident, have been switched to our redundant upstream providers.

While all our systems continue to work with our backup upstream providers, there are momentary (millisecond) outages caused by our BGP routers switching between providers to find the best connection while we wait for this main cable to be repaired.  Our team continues to monitor the situation, and will provide updates if we lose any type of connectivity.

Nerds On Site is always finding new ways to reduce our client's IT costs, and today we are announcing a further price savings for all our clients and future clients.  Effective immediately, Nerds On Site has dropped all .us pricing by 16%.

Contact our team today to take advantage of these great new prices by switching to Nerds On Site!  You can call our team at 1-877-696-3737, or contact us online here: http://www.nerdsisp.com/contact-us.html.

A few days ago a data center in Chesterfield, Virginia went down, taking 24 Virginia state agencies with it.  Last fall, the state of Virginia made similar headlines when rolling IT outages brought to light the state's failure to include network redundancies as part of their new 10-year IT outsourcing deal with Northrop Grumman.

Redundancy is an important aspect of any online presence, and Nerds On Site can help your business realize full redundancy in all your online business.  As a first step, every one of our hosting clients is protected by our geographically redundant DNS system.

Contact our team today to learn how we can ensure such a problem doesn't happen to your business.

See additional coverage in the Roanoke Times, Virginia Business and Washington Post.

Nerds On Site is always finding new ways to reduce our client's IT costs, and today we are announcing a further price savings for all our clients and future clients.  Effective immediately, Nerds On Site has dropped all .org pricing by 16%.

Contact our team today to take advantage of these great new prices by switching to Nerds On Site!  You can call our team at 1-877-696-3737, or contact us online here: http://www.nerdsisp.com/contact-us.html.

The uptime and availability of your website is a crucial factor in your business.  If your website is down, your business reputation will suffer greatly, and while your site is down you will not be able to generate new online revenues.  When picking a new hosting company, it's crucial to determine whether they are transparent in their uptime reports.  Most hosting companies will not publish their information, GoDaddy being a primary example of this.  Third party monitoring indicates that GoDaddy's uptime is a mere 3 nines of uptime (99.9%), which is hardly enough to maintain a professional web presence.

Nerds On Site maintained a 99.9995% availability across all our systems during the month of August.  We strive to provide all our clients at least 4 nines of uptime (99.99%) each month, and we publish all our numbers on our website, http://trust.nerdsisp.com.  In fact, Nerds On Site goes one step further, and has contracted an outside company to monitor all our servers and ensure that everything is accurate.  Ask your current hosting company - why don't they publish their uptime numbers?