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pair.com
2403 Sidney Street, Suite 510
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
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pair reviewAbout pair.comIn the years since pair Networks was founded, much has changed about the company and about the Internet itself. However, the commitment to our mission has never wavered -- provide the highest-quality Web hosting services we possibly can.
A Single Idea
The idea for pair Networks was formed in the summer of 1995. CEO Kevin Martin saw a niche that needed to be filled: a company that focuses exclusively on high-quality, affordable Web hosting. With a 600 square-foot office, a single employee, a partial T-1 line, and a $10,000 family loan, pair Networks was born and went online on January 11, 1996.
That first year was an exciting time. All aspects of the company were being created from scratch, company functions and procedures were being developed, and pair Networks' customer base skyrocketed at a rate that surpassed even the most optimistic projections.
pair Networks Moves Up
By the end of its second year, pair Networks had grown to the point that the small office was no longer adequate, and in January 1998, the company moved to a larger facility. The next two years brought even faster growth -- so much so that by late 1999, pair Networks had once again outgrown its offices and data center space.
In December of 1999, pair Networks completed its second move to a much larger and more scalable location -- the River Park Commons on Pittsburgh's Historic South Side. The company has been in this location for years, and despite non-stop growth, will be able to comfortably expand for quite some time.
What's Changed and What Hasn't
Many facets of the company have changed over the years. At its inception, pair Networks offered only four accounts: FTP, Basic, Advanced, and Webmaster. Those accounts still exist, but now we offer more hosting options and services than ever before.
We still painstakingly build and maintain our core systems in-house as we've done from day one, but we've also partnered with some of the best Web application developers out there such as Movable Type (powerful blogging software) and ShopSite (feature-laden shopping cart application), which gives our customers the ability to develop more dynamic Web sites.
Where We Are Now
pair Networks has expanded from its humble beginning to truly impressive numbers. The original partial T-1 line has been replaced by multiple, ultra-high capacity fiber optic circuits. What was once a single switch is now a multi-layered, redundant local network. And the single 120MHz "powerhouse server" has now become thousands of servers in constant upgrade rotation. That single employee is now an entire team of professionals working 24/7/365 to support our valued customers.
pair Networks continually expands its services and offerings. pairNIC, our domain name registrar, gives our hosting customers a way to register, renew, and transfer their domain names. pairLite gives customers with hobby sites an inexpensive way to host their online projects. Our QuickServe dedicated server and pairColo co-location offerings allow larger organizations and businesses to bring their Web site projects to life. As the months and years go on, pair Networks will launch additional projects that will benefit our customers.
The Future: We're Not Stopping
For all that has changed, the center has not budged, and pair Networks remains as committed to offering the highest-quality Web hosting -- as it did from the first day the lights went on in a small office building in Pittsburgh. It is that recognition of what got us here that will keep us here for a long time to come.
pair Networks operates its own exclusive, custom-built Internet datacenters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Adjoining our headquarters office, the datacenters have been pre-built to accommodate years of growth. The datacenters feature everything necessary to ensure the absolute best in uptime and reliability for your site.
WORLD CLASS NETWORK
We operate our own dedicated, multi-homed network in our own datacenters. Our local network is fully-switched and collision-free, while our external connections are GigE (up to 10,000Mbps) to five diverse backbone networks. We use Juniper Networks routers and Foundry Networks switches for wire-speed, rock-solid connectivity to our upstream providers.
Through hand-tuning in addition to BGP route selection, we ensure optimal route selection focused on private peering and automatic failover in the event of outages.
We are continually expanding and upgrading our network for capacity and diversity.
Our connectivity providers are:
VerizonGigE
SprintGigE
Global CrossingGigE
Level(3)GigE
Electric LightwaveGigE
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Last update: 2011-01-28 10:07:51 GMT | | Owner: | pair Networks, Inc. | | Web Site Title | pair Networks | | Website Description | Offers shared hosting, domain registration and dedicated servers. Supports MySQL, PHP and Python. | | Statistics | | Site in business since | 18-Aug-1995 | | Links to the site | 15554 | | Alexa Popularity Rank | 10258 (1 best) | | Site language | en | | Details for www.pair.com website | | Website Name Servers (DNS) | MX::mx1.pair.com:209.68.1.60
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ns1.pair.com:209.68.1.11 | | Server Software | Apache/2.2.20 | | Website IP | 66.39.3.7 | | IP Location:Country/State/City | United states / Pennsylvania / Pittsburgh [See Hosting in United States ] |
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The quick stats of pair.com ranks shows a note average of 3.1 out of 7 opinions and price range $5.95 - $49.95. As customer/visitor you can rate this provider. If you are part of support, you can respond to these pair.com reviews by login as company or registering a free account! Time Hosted: over 3 years
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September 8, 2010
Steve Kinney ( admin@p... ) | I have used pair.com for about 8 years, to host static sites including commercial clients with very high bandwidth requirements. I have never seen downtime or slow content delivery, and have never seen a problem with high volumes of e-mail. I have been consistently impressed with the quality of their tech support, on those rare occasions I have needed questions answered.
I am not in a position to comment on complaints re the performance of Wordpress on Pair servers. Pair Networks is a [...]
87 out of 98 users found this review to be helpful!
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November 2, 2009
beth ( beth.nicol@g... ) | I would have rated pair as 10's until I started getting the "why don't you consider moving all of your sites to MovableType" when they disabled them because of high load (these sites are Wordpress and MediaWiki); This has been mostly in the last month (October 2009).
Other than that, I have had very good experiences with Pair and it's Support.
92 out of 103 users found this review to be helpful!
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October 21, 2009
Mike Ross ( Squeevox@m... ) | Pair doesn't read the totality of support messages to them leading to the undoing of previous fixes.
Some of their people are real good but their working fixes get undone by the next guy when you have another query.
They of course assume that I know what they are talking about and give me instructions for a geek instead of consumer.
After over a year of over usage charges they finally told me that they gave me two mailboxes which are filled with spam. I never asked for or needed them; my e [...]
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June 11, 2009
G W ( strangest@c... ) | I actually switch my clients away from Pair and Pair Networks very cheaply, because it makes maintenance of their site easier in the long run. Pair shared hosting is horrible at best, with no access to log files, .htaccess files scattered everywhere, and seriously botched upgrades which brought our site down for days.
We kept the SSL keys purchased under Pair Networks, and wrote to them a month before they were scheduled to expire, asking to renew only the SSL keys.
We assumed all was good [...]
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May 8, 2009
Harry Davis ( hmcl1@y... ) | Customer support is exemplary; all emails arrive virtually at the same moment; never any problems. Excellent host, pair.com
62 out of 73 users found this review to be helpful!
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November 26, 2008
vlad ( -no email- ) | very reliable, quick response to email requests/questions. never needed customer service. price is high for the features offered but the reliability of the service makes it worth it. never had a delayed email in more than 6 years.
71 out of 80 users found this review to be helpful!
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July 4, 2008
Alex ( alxram@g... ) | If you want to host any type of blog or database driven website (like Wordpress) I don't recommend pair. The minute you start getting significant traffic (even on a high-volume account) they'll disable your site without warning. Then they'll act like it's your fault for using Wordpress, and they won't re-enable your site until the traffic goes down. Their 'high volume' accounts are only good for static html based websites.
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