Technical advantages of the ISPFH Co-Op

No oversale

We never oversell Internet bandwidth. If you buy 128Kbps of bandwidth to the Internet, we reserve 128Kbps of bandwidth in our network and on our connection to our upstream provider. We will never be a bottleneck or congestion point between the Internet and you. DSL is only limited by line qualification speed - up to 1.5M X 384K with broadly available static IPs at a flat monthy rate.

Bandwidth at cost

As a Co-op, all bandwidth is bought in volume from our upstream, and sold to the membership at cost.

As many IP addresses as you need

We are required to ration our IP address allocation; however we will always give you as many IP addresses as you actually require and can show you will usefully allocate, along with some room to grow. We can always move you to a larger address block if you are running out of addresses. There is never any fee for IP addresses.

Control over your inverse DNS mapping

Full control over the name resolution of all of your IP addresses; from many ISPs, this arrangement is usually only available with a full 'Class C' address block.

DNS mirroring

We will mirror your domain name tables (up to 11 domains) on our primary name server. You do not need to make your internal name server visible to the public internet, only to our server.

Secondary MX and ETRN mail service

E-Mail can be temporarily cached on our SMTP server for delivery to your internal mail servers.

NNTP access

We maintain an NNTP server for posting access to all groups, and spool locally a number of special-interest hierarchies.

Colocation features

All members can colocate servers for the cost of a switch port, bandwidth, and rack space in our racks at the Level3 colocation facility. Level3 has a commercial facility with reliable environmental control and backup power. Serial console and remote power control are available from the Coop as extra cost options.