Hostirian is a wholly owned business unit of River City Internet Group ( http://www.rcig.net ). Founded in 2001, Hostirian now manages over 40,000 domains, 5000+ servers and over 30,000 sq ft of data center space.
Hostirian provides premium & complex hosting , managed & collocation services through its multiple carrier class facilities (supported by online tools). Hostirian's core focus is their personalized attention to client’s needs, offering 24x7xForever support, with three ways to communicate: 800 phone service, email (ties into ticket system) and Live Chat (pre and post sales).
Hostirian is located in St. Louis, Missouri, which is renowned to be geographically centered and remarkably connected. Servers and applications are monitored by an onsite 24x7xForever NOC staffed by trained engineers. Clients include Web 2.0 search engine Ice Rocket, Interstate Bakeries, IntraISP, and Fanball.
Experience
Since 1995 (beginning as Primary Network), our team has been:
- Developing and operating local, regional and national IP and Voice networks
- Delivering advanced new services
- Enhancing end user support, and
- Enabling web based service provisioning tools and billing systems.
We have been pioneering white label services since 1996 and 1997 with launches of:
- NineNet (on behalf of St. Louis’s Educational Television Broadcaster since 1954)
- KETC Channel 9
- KC Access, on behalf of The Kansas City Star ( Missouri’s largest newspaper).
During 1999 and early 2000, Primary Network executed fifteen acquisitions of regional ISP’s and raised its annual run rate to $20M. In June of 2000, Primary Network was sold to publicly traded MPower Communications (MPOW) for $145M. One year later, MPower sold the business portion of their ISP business back to the original ownership group of Primary Network, creating River City Internet Group.
Award Winning
In 1999, Primary Network was recognized as the fastest-growing technology company in St. Louis by the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association of St. Louis. In addition, with a five-year growth rate of more than 10,000 percent, Primary Network was named #22 on Deloitte & Touche's Nationwide Fast 500. In 2000, we were nominated for the prestigious Computerworld Smithsonian Awards (for the advanced architecture of our Super Regional DSL deployment).
Today
Today, Hostirian puts its operating experience, service delivery platforms and best practices to work for you. Whether monitoring an Enterprise Wide Area Network, assuring uptime on a VoIP deployment, or integrating a robust billing and business management system for an IPTV build, Hostirian's team of professionals can help.
2010/2011
Hostirian has been awarded as a top ranked web hosting company – for the year 2010/2011 by Web Hosting Search which provides reviews for some of the best business web hosting providers.
This award was the result of - a project Web Hosting Search started as part of their effort to create a listing of companies that perform excellently in the web hosting and web design industry for the year 2010-2011. Hostirian was nominated for the Best Web Service Provider category based on previous client’s feedback, which they got through a client survey that they initiated.
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