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About Parcom Internet Services, Inc. 
- A family company
"Building lifelong business relationships one site at a time."


Parcom is a fast growing family business located in Renton, Washington which is about 15 miles from Seattle and just south of the famous Redmond area where Microsoft is located.  Speaking of Microsoft, please visit our case study that they did on Parcom too!

We are a proud team that take pride in what we do for our clients. 

Despite all of the choices a site owner has to decide on, we have out lasted thousands of hosting companies of all sizes for over 11 years!   Tired of moving from host to host?   We are the last move for companies, resellers, ISPs, and even private site owners.

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Our Company Goals

To provide our customers with high speed, low cost, web site hosting and related services using the latest technology available. Our service is linked with multiple high speed connections to the internet in order to provide our customers the best service possible. We are unlike other service providers in that our service does not carry the additional overhead of unrelated services like newsgroups or broadband services.   

We offer first class, state of the art hosting at affordable pricing!

 

Our Family and Staff

Parcom only hires the best of the best in the industry when it comes to staffing.   Our combined knowledge and experience as well as our lean and mean approach to doing business allows us to serve our customers better than our competitors.  We are always in training, let alone constantly learning from our customers needs every second of Parcom's  7x24 business life cycle.   Also, every client is part of our extended family here.   Our staff are on call 24 hours a day and with so much growth we are expanding in all areas of our business too.  Parcom is always looking for the best candidates for employment who are willing to go the extra mile for our customers.   A long waiting list is already in place for those who are interested in joining the company too!    A company that is fun to work in, but also more challenging than anything you have ever done in your life.

Parcom values are in the following order:

Faith, family, then work.   That speaks for itself.

 

Our Service Commitment to Our Customers

When Parcom was established in the early 90's in the computer distribution and general trade industry, our goal was to provide our customers with the best possible service that meets or exceeds their expectations. And it's not just service either. It is our commitment to a prosperous and long term business relationship with each and every customer.   When our current President took over the family business he was determined to turn Parcom into the an industry leader!

Because Parcom takes care of customers through honesty and integrity, we will tell customers "like it is" whenever questions arise.  We do not play games, or use sales tactics to win anyone's business.   In fact, our business thrives on only referrals!   We take care of customers, and many customers take care of us by referring friends and family to us.  Parcom does not do any mainstream advertising at all, in fact we do not need to.    Our success is definitely related to our clients success this way!  Getting a straight answer from a company like ours is not for everyone - if, however, it is right for you, then you're shopping at the right place!   Our team is not afraid to tell you the truth or even tell you an honest no answer to questions.   There are many more expensive providers that will give you the royal treatment but may lack true customer care in the long run!    As a Parcom client you are part of our extended family here.  Again, no games are played here.  

Parcom plans to be here for as long as customers want our services.  We have been in this business for a very long time and we have seen so many of our fine competitors close their businesses due to the intense competition.  In fact we see a lot of "copy cat" companies out there, but as one of our fine clients said, "you may copy the web site, but you'll never copy the people and family behind Parcom."     Parcom has a 20 year business plan, and for the past 11 we have been right on target.  And with so much scandal with regards to some large companies, some of which are hosting companies, we feel that staying a successful family run business is not only the right thing for our company, but we feel we can better service YOU as our customer.  If you are hosting elsewhere today, ask them how far does their business plan take them?   Does it take them at least past 20 months?   Well, that's good!  But how about 20 years?   It is not just the technology behind this unbelievable business plan, but the family values and customer service plans that allow us to excel.   Not to mention, we're right on target with our plans too.

Honesty and integrity is our policy.


Our Network - Our Pride and Joy!

Parcom provides world-class data connectivity. When your business depends on its IP connectivity, you can't afford to make a mistake. Every second your connectivity or web site is down, you can lose money and customers. In today's economy, you can't afford to let network mistakes disrupt your business. It was with this thought that Parcom set out to design and implement a revolutionary type of service: 100% NET!

Our connectivity is hard to beat. With hundreds of private and public peering sessions, it's no wonder why people are choosing Parcom as their hosting provider. We constantly evaluate new transmission options almost daily, to ensure you have the highest quality of service and the lowest prices possible.

Parcom is extremely proud of the network we built up.   We pride ourselves on the attention to detail we have for our systems.   We custom build every fiber line and every network cable to the highest standards.   Everything is neat and tidy too.    Even though customers will rarely ever see our network, rest assured it isn't a rats nest like a great number of the hosting companies we've seen!    Pride in our network is essential the success of the company because anyone can build a network, but not everyone will build it right.

Parcom is housed in downtown Seattle's Westin Building, which is the most heavily wired building in the northwest part of the United States.   Being this close to the biggest providers in the world is our way of assuring our customers that we are here for the long haul.

Where is the main Parcom data center?  Right here:  http://www.westinbuilding.com  We will not specifically say exactly where in the building for security reasons, and we chose not to be listed as a tenant like many other customers in this very secure facility.   However, rest assured we are in this building and so are many major players in the internet business. 

Parcom's main head quarters is in Renton which is just minutes from everything, including our data center facility.

 

What Peering at Parcom Means to You and Your Site Visitors

Parcom has many peering partners.  What that means to you is: SPEED.    This is ON TOP of our triple redundant power feeds from three electric companies which is backed by three redundant UPS systems.  No one matches Parcom.  No one.  For the technical folks we are even above N+1 in a lot of our datacenter.

Peering and serious redundancy is fundamental to the Parcom network. It is the practice of exchanging free network access with another network provider. In a standard situation, as soon as a packet of information leaves the Parcom network, Parcom has to pay for the distance it travels on other networks. But with peering, we give other networks access to the reach of our network in return for them allowing us to send packets over theirs. This extends the reach of our network, improves performance, and reduces cost, allowing us to deliver greater value to you. Since the Internet is based on the principle of global reach ability - the concept that any Internet user can reach any other Internet user as though they were on the same network - peering has become an essential part of the network landscape.
Parcom has over 650 public and private peering agreements. We are a member of the following peering exchanges through various partnership agreements:

AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange)
Ashburn Equinix
Chicago Equinix
LINX (London Internet Exchange)
NOTA (Nap of the Americas)
NYIIX (New York Intl. Internet Exchange)
PAIX (Palo Alto Exchange)
PIX (PEER 1 Internet Exchange)
San Jose Equinix
SIX (Seattle Internet Exchange)

This will explain the following positive questions that many customers ask us:

"Why is it so fast to send e-mail to and from my friends?"  or  "Why is Parcom faster from overseas than most hosting providers?"   

Now you know why!  

 

Designed Redundancy and Reliability

Parcom's multi-homed connections channel into fully redundant high-end Cisco routers, each supported by uninterruptible power supply units. Our routers are connected to hosting switches over Gigabit Ethernet.

Datacenter Infrastructure:
* 99.99999% uptime (for Parcom's network infrastructure)
* Massively peered with other networks around the world
* Regional footprints in other areas of the country for increased redundancy
* State of the art equipment
* Only Cisco routers and Gigabit Ethernet switches
* UPS and diesel backup generators (for emergency power supply)
* Network backed by building's redundant power grid configuration
* 24/7 on site Network Monitoring and Support

World-Class Facilities:
* Temperature and humidity controls
* Earthquake hardened and certified
* Advanced fire control systems with all sites using dry pipe pre-action, some sites use additional


High level of security:
* Monitored via closed circuit video camera system
* NOC Staffed 24/7
* Centralized security management


Reliable power:
* State of the art triple redundant power systems that assure power availability
* Power is triple redundant to 3 major power companies
* Backup power generation (triple redundant)
* Uninterrupted power source (triple redundant)


Advanced Scalable Network:
* National IP Backbone hundreds of public and private peering sessions
* Backup Network Capacity
* Multiple Level Redundancy allows for maximum network uptime and stability
* Engineered to scale up exponentially due to our founder's 20 year business plan
* 24/7 Network Operations Center

 

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