New Hosts

EpicUp has gone through some new updates, and is now providing a reliable stream of Cogent Optic bandwidth. We will now be operating solely through the Cyrus One data center in Chandler, AZ. Although our systems will no longer be run through PhoenixNAP, we can refer you to several PhoenixNAP representatives for Cloud and visualization services.   " PhoenixNAP Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) reduces the total cost of cloud ownership and stands out in the market because of the car...
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Cogent Bandwidth in Phoenix AZ!

EpicUp will now be supplying a stream of cheap, high latency bandwidth from one of the world's leaders in fiber optic connections: Cogent. EpicUp has just recently established a new data center in Phoenix, at CyrusOne. Bandwidth will now range in prices for the simple mom and pop businesses, who use packages as small as 15 mbps, to large multi-million corporations at serveral gigs. With products for almost all branches of the business world, EpicUp will be the staple of your business's bandwidth...
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Cyrus One

For those in the computer business, Cyrus One might be a name you are familiar with. Many business and online operations require computer systems that can withstand heavy loads and have lots of reliable hardware. Cyrus One is a U.S. based company that operates and develops data centers. There are over 20 Cyrus One data centers across the world, and has clients that expertise in a largely varying degree of expertise. Why is this important? Large business like Cogent and HE also use these data cen...
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Bandwidth

What is bandwidth? Bandwidth is a term used in the computer world as a way to describe a physical or virtual maximum load of data that can be passed on from a provider, such as an ISP. This is usually measured in bits of data, such as “megabytes”, or “gigabytes”. Most home networks have a bandwidth connection that stays in the megabyte limit of data transfer. But some places need far more speed, and this is where some business internet providers have plans such that allow for several gigabytes ...
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Internet Service Providers

An Internet Service Provider, sometimes abbreviated into ISP is exactly what is sounds like, an organization or business that sells various services that allow the customer to connect to the internet. Cogent and Hurricane Electric are both examples of ISPs, and while both of these companies sell internet access, most internet service providers also sell other services as well. Web hosting is a large amount of ISP profit, because of such high demand.   What is Web Hosting? A web host is...
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Hurricane Electric

Hurricane Electric (HE) is an ISP based in Fremont, California. Like most internet services providers, HE has a large data center and provides web hosting services around that area. Hurricane Electric is a special ISP, because it operates the largest IPv6 network on the planet. IPv6 is an extremely important new protocol, ISPs and web hosts globally are transitioning to it as the world increases in need of IP addresses.  Not everyone has transitioned to IPv6, as for the last decade IPv4 has been...
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Cogent

What is Cogent? Cogent Communications is one of the world’s largest ISPs. They have products such as dedicated internet access, tier 1 IP transit, and colocation services. Cogent is also one of EpicUp’s providers in our blended bandwidth program. Mixing Cogent with other providers adds fast internet speed but extremely low costs because of Cogent’s cheap prices. With 2 of the world’s largest and most successful ISPs, EpicUp’s goal is to create a strong-standing business internet provider with f...
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What is Optic Fiber?

Optic fiber is flexible transparent fiber that has waves of light transmitted through it to communicate to computer systems. Since light is the fastest thing we know of, this makes fiber optic communication a good choice for massive data centers and business needing massive amounts of bandwidth. Plastic fibers also lose less energy over time, and are not affected by electromagnetic interference. Cogent has some of the world’s largest fiber optic cables stretching in all different areas across...
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