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Japan Broadband Providers ISP

Nov 30

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If you have just come to Japan, you’ll definitely want to experience the internet that they have here. There is a great list of the various companies you can use for your internet access here.

The most cost effective seems to be Excite. From their website, they seem to use this as a way to bring in users for their adult site business.

Next up is Asahi Net, who seems to be the first legitimate provider for the cost. They even have an English homepage if you don’t speak Japanese here.

The amazing thing about Japanese providers is they all provide email addresses with 100 or 200 MB of disk space. Wow! We are in the broadband revolution, I am surprised they haven’t made it to at least 1GB yet.

In the US, for example, Comcast has 10GB even for the add-on accounts.

If you travel much, you’ll see that Japan definitely has the best throughput for broadband internet access in the world.

Who Has Your Data, Is Anyone Backing It Up?

Oct 13

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Wow! This article in the Washington Post is really sad. I hate to see people lose data.

T-Mobile is a great company owned by Deutsche Telecom. A solid company. I suppose the point to the matter is their back-end was a Microsoft subsidiary called Danger Inc. Clearly they weren’t doing their job.

I found a company that is a very cost effective host. For $4.95 a month you can get unlimited Hosting on one domain. Amazingly cheap! The problem I found out (before switching to AINEO Secure) was that they don’t really back up everything. If your account is ‘too large’ you can’t even initiate a back up from your control panel.

I am very proud of all the sweat and blood we put into AINEO Secure. Running a hosting business is not for the faint-hearted.

We have been supporting mail services since 1997 so have solid communications is second nature to us. For example, our mail servers are clustered. That means that even if one of the mail servers goes down (pretty difficult with duplicate power, processors, and RAID disks), then then another server will pick up the slack.

All of the data is backed up and stored locally and in our Saitama center. I can’t imagine this type of Danger Inc problem happening to us. The last thing I want to do it let it happen to our partners.

Give us a try. AINEO Secure Hosting is great!

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