About Us

SSA Host is the webhosting division of Sirkels & Squares Alternative, and a formalization of services including webhosting that have been offered since 1998. Previous incarnations were targeted towards a specific audience and/or service or need. It was decided that it would be better to bring all this together under one roof and offer the same services with a more organized backing.

NOC Server Room We have been offering web-hosting and consulting services since Dec. 2000, mostly to specialized groups and on an individual basis. SSA Host officially came into existence in early June, 2005 after the realization that we could do what we've become good at doing on a larger scale. After running on a limited scale for a year and a half, to work out the kinks in providing and supporting webhosting services to our clients - SSA Host celebrates 6 years of experience by fully opening our services to the public in December, 2006! We continue to consistently provide reliable services and friendly customer support that our clients have been able to depend on.

We strive to do three things extremely well. 1: Provide fast, reliable service you can depend on. 2: Keep our prices extremely affordable. 3: Offer fast, friendly, and knowledgable support. In order to reach these goals, we continuously maintain and monitor our services. We don't oversell our resources, and we don't needlessly indulge ourseves at the customers expense. We love what we do, and we want you to be proud of the services we offer. Our enthusiasm for our work shows in our customer support - both in attitude and knowledge. We also try to make our service easy to use and understand by providing documentation, tutorials, and answers to common questions.

Network

Network As you may already have noticed, we don't operate like the other guys. And this is one of the ways we stand out against the competition. Some may instinctively turn away the moment they hear that SSA Host does not have it's own data center, but please read on to find out why. Yes, it's true we don't own our own mega-square-foot facilities - instead we leave that to those who do it best so we can focus on what we do best. We are experts at providing fast, affordable, and reliable webhosting with excellent customer service.

But don't think this puts us in the little leagues either. The data centers we use are all best in class, with multiple carriers, backup power generators, high security and more. We don't settle for run of the mill colocation services at bargain basement prices. We pay top dollar for high-end, high-class service that puts our service on top. This still cuts out a huge overhead in terms of cost, personnell, and more to run our own facility that we have eliminated from the typical business model. This allows us to focus on maintaining the servers, providing excellent customer service, and keeping our prices low. Plus it allows our servers to be geographically diverse for fault tolerance and to provide even better service for regional hosting needs.

Your account may be placed on a server at any one of the following data centers, primarily depending on the type of account - if you would like to request your account be placed in a specific DC, or would like sample IP addresses to ping or test connection speeds please contact us via the contact page and we'll be happy to help you out.

colo4dallas:

One of the largest colocation facilities in Dallas, this diverse powerful network featuring Level (3) and Internap provides our customers optimum speed and reliability; also offers high speed connectivity from multiple carriers and clean IP addresses in a true carrier neutral environment. Located at the edge of downtown Dallas on one of the most fiber rich routes in the city, colo4dallas maintains a fully-equipped, 28,000 square foot facility that is staffed around the clock. With uncompromising standards for security, power supply and environmental controls, they focus on connectivity, redundancy and resilience.

Network

Power Systems Environmental Controls Security and Access Fire Suppression Systems

MPT:

This powerful network featuring Verio and Cogent allows us to gain direct access to major carriers and service providers. Market Post Tower (MPT) is the major gateway of Silicon Valley data and peering traffic, located in the heart of downtown San Jose, California. MPT is a 289,965 square foot facility that is home to MAE-West. Today in the telecommunications community, MPT is widely known as one of the most connected peering points around the globe.

Overview

Global, National and Metro Connectivity
More than 100 networks, service providers, and enterprises
Carrier-neutral space
Central Business District location

Premier San Jose Colocation Space
Customized cage space up to 3,000 square feet
Single cabinets

Superior Colocation Infrastructure
Up to 200 breakered Watts/square foot
Redundant AC/DC UPS power

Managed Services
24x7 remote hands
Certified technicians
Turn-key equipment installation
Operations outsourcing

Rooftop Access
Multiple antenna masts
Space for multiple antenna towers

San Jose Peering Opportunities
X-Connections to any tenant
Any2 Packet Exchange
Virtualized X-Connections to any One Wilshire tenant

TEL-X:

Located at the corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, Our downtown data center is positioned in the heart of the telecommunication district in metropolitan Los Angeles. Scalable to suit the needs of our valued customers this downtown location offers a top-notch facility for mission critical computing and network infrastructure.

FACILITY SPECIFICATIONS:

Year Built: 1914; Complete structural upgrade to telecom standards in 1999
Building Area: 500,000 square feet (67,000 usable sq ft floor plate area)
Access: Keycard/biometric scanner/ video monitoring/recording/24x7 Security Staff
Telecom Type/Capacity: Fiber/Interducts
Flooring: 18. raised, 2'x 2' floorplates
HVAC: Condenser water sources (configured as N+1); (11) 30-ton units
Fire Suppression: Double interlock preaction system and heat & smoke detection
Power: Utility power (2500 Amp 480V feed); Generator back-up (4 1500 kw generators, N+1 paralleled); UPS (Six 300 kVA UPS power plants configured as 2N). Circuits available at 120V, 208V single phase
Loading Dock: Accommodates tractor trailers, no height restrictions

401 N. Broad St.

Located in the Building of the Americas, at 401 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, PA, USA, has a unique history that has positioned it as one of the most secure and structurally stable data centers in the world. Constructed in the early 1900.s by the Department of Defense, the Building of the Americas was specifically designed to withstand the rigors associated with the production of tanks assembled during World War I and II.

The location of the building was chosen by the Department of Defense due to its proximity to the National Rail Lines. The building sits directly above the train tunnels which allowed the production crews to drop the finished tanks onto a flatbed train for easy transport. In the 1950's, ATT established a Point of Presence (POP) in the Building of the Americas by constructing a phone services network throughout the train tunnels, subsequently linking into all East Coast phone service traffic.

Today, the train tunnels house fiber optic cable, stretching along the entire East Coast and extending to the far reaches of the globe. As a result, every major carrier has a Point of Presence within this building. The ability to connect to every major carrier gives us tremendous growth potential here, as well as placing us in one of the premier carrier neutral data centers in the world.

The Building of the Americas is fed by two separate power grids. In addition, we have two diesel generators capable of providing power indefinitely in the event of a power outage. All equipment is connected through a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply). This data center has N+1 redundancy and is SAS 70 certified. We can also provide DC power to customers who require this unique service.

This facility utilizes a completely redundant network infrastructure consisting of: Dual Juniper M Series routers, Multiple Cisco Switches for the core network, as well as Cisco "edge" switches.

In addition to top of the line hardware, our entire network is run via Gigabit Fiber connectivity. This allows us to move massive amounts of bandwidth, even for the most demanding, bandwidth-intensive needs of our customers.

Facility Features:

Juniper M Series Routers
Cisco Core and Edge Switches
Gigabit Fiber Connectivity
Multiple Gig-E Fiber Upstream Links
Level 3
Global Crossing
KVM over IP for "out of band" access
Third Party Monitoring of all network gear

Servers

Servers SSA Host uses primarily the RedHat and CentOS linux operating systems on our servers. We utilise RAID storage arrays to safeguard our customers data, and server backups are performed daily in case of data loss. Technicians are onsite 24x7 at each of the data centers we use to provide immidiate assistance with hardware and connectivity issues, or to perform hot-swaps should anything fail.

Our support staff continuously monitor not only each servers availability, but also current resource usage to proactively prevent downtime caused by rogue processes, DoS attacks, etc.

Each server is fully backed up daily and securely stored offsite for maximum disaster recovery and availability. The last 30 days worth of backups are kept in a secure location. We utilize full hardware and storage array redundancy for our backup systems to further protect your data. With well over 6 Terabytes of data storage currently available and the ability to add capacity at any time should the need arise, your data is safe.