Mr. Trinidad,
Exodus and Data Return do not even come close to competing in the same space. In fact, Data Return could very well be a customer of Exodus, but they chose Level 3 instead. Web hosting, in which Data Return is the gorilla of the industry, is actually a higher margin business than data center housing, the industry in which Exodus and Above.net are the gorillas.
Data Return hosts their servers remotely at a data center such as Level 3. They simply log into their servers from hundreds or thousands of miles away and configure NT for their customers, whose sites go on the servers. Exodus or Above.net (or in this case, Level 3) is where the servers are kept. They provide the connection, Data Return provides the hosting.
I would be gung ho on Data Return if I respected the Microsoft platform at all. But I still sort of like it, because the only way that a company can host their site on NT with a near 100% uptime guarantee is to host with Data Return, the acclaimed NT experts. Every other NT host in the book suffers from frequent downtime, in web hosting terms anyway. |
