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There are less than ten businesses in the world focused on FTP hosting and even fewer like FTP Today that do nothing else but FTP hosting. FTP Today is unique among those businesses and is head-and-shoulders above all of its competitors by virtue of how it builds and operates its systems and entire network infrastructure. We build and maintain many servers for enterprise companies while most of our competitors have only one or two servers and are literally "mom and pop" operations and home-based businesses.

Here are some key points of differentiation:

	FTP Today	Competitors
Data Center and Network
SAS 70 Type II Certified	Yes	No
On site monitoring and alerts for all critical systems	Yes	Sometimes
Off site monitoring from a second Tier1 data center	Yes	No
Gigabit or higher bandwidth to Tier-1 Internet backbones	Yes	No
Dedicated IP address per customer	Yes	Rarely
Unlimited Transfer per customer	Yes	Rarely
Mission Critical Supporting Infrastructure
Distributed DNS Servers	Yes	No
Separate locations for supporting functions (web site, billing, email, chat, support)	Yes	No
Brick and mortor business operating at least one of its own data centers	Yes	Rarely
Service Levels
100 Megabit Cisco switch port on every server	Yes	Sometimes
99.9 percent uptime guarantee	Yes	Sometimes
30-minute activation	Yes	Rarely
Real-time provisioning systems	Yes	Rarely
Disaster recovery backups	Yes	Sometimes
Hardware
Multi-CPU Intel processors	Yes	Rarely
RAID5 hard drive arrays	Yes	No
SCSI or SAS hard drives (10,000 rpm or faster)	Yes	No
Software
Enterprise grade licensed and supported operating system ( vs. open source )	Yes	No
Operating system tuned for high volume FTP services	Yes	No
Enterprise grade licensed and supported server virtualization software	Yes (Parallels)	One (FreeVPS)
Dedicated FTP server application per customer	Yes	No
Dedicated HTTP server application per customer	Yes	No
All other service applications disabled (SMTP, POP3, etc.)	Yes	No
Web FTP Client	Yes	Rarely
Control Panel
Specialized custom designed control panel	Yes	No
Reports on storage and bandwidth usage	Yes	Sometimes
Username and password creation	Yes	Yes
Usage data by username	Yes	Sometimes
Detailed log file viewer report utility	Yes	No
Reboot server (see virtualization)	Yes	No
Quota alert emails	Yes	Rarely
File manager utility	Yes	Sometimes

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