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Paris and Montréal (Qc.) – Ecritel opens in Montréal its North American managed hosting center to round off Paris and Shanghai centers.

Quality traffic on various continents

Ecritel provides internet facilities hosting and management for a thousand companies among which 12 CAC40 companies and numerous SME with globalised market and location.

“An ever growing number of our clients need a good website traffic quality on various continents while not affording a costly CDN (Content Delivery Network) solution, single provider dominated market” states Christophe Doveil, Ecritel CEO. “We provide local hosting and mirroring solutions that enable them to compete with local companies on equal terms while benefiting skills and expertise used on first site.”

A "Follow the sun" engineers team

To setup its own facilities, Ecritel Inc. chose a Canix data center and for its IP transit, Cogent and Verizon telcos, already group providers in France.

Opening of Montréal center also allowed Ecritel to round off a « Follow the sun » 24/7 engineers team which relay in Paris, Montréal and Shanghai time zones on demand from each local support to work out arduous system or network troubleshooting happening in any center. It is everywhere difficult to enrol experienced engineers for night jobs and on-call obligations damage global service quality with generated overstrain.

A very cost-effective power in Montréal

Ecritel chose Montréal as North American location because of a very competitive power cost, increasingly important matter in coming years for data centers’ operating costs. « In Montréal, kWh price is half of American big towns’ and a third of San Francisco’s, one of the most expensive among North American cities » quotes Thierry Louail, Chairman of the group. Quebec power, hydroelectric at 95%, is mainly independent of fossil energy rarefaction. A cold climate allows at last to lower power share used in hardware cooling.

Ecritel builds up gradually a worldwide managed hosting centers network with a location in each main economical zone ; after Shanghai under Aiqi IT trademark opened in 2008 and Montréal this year, Ecritel plans to open soon Brazil and South-East Asia locations.