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| Founded
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1996 |
| Headquarters |
Vancouver,
BC. Canada |
| Leadership |
Haralds
Jass CEO |
| Employees
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Strength
- An extremely
comprehensive range of advanced web hosting solutions
ranging from Unix®/NT® virtual accounts, up to superior
Unix®, Linux®, NT®/W2K, RaQ and SUN Dedicated/Colocated
services.
- A concentrated
focus on what our customers want, which is why we
constantly conduct customer surveys and provide new
& improved services based on these survey.
- Easy to contact
and receive personalized, dedicated, almost fanatical
customer support either by email, phone, ICQ or our new
Superb LiveChat
- A steadfast
commitment by management to deliver the latest
technological and customer driven advancements in the
industry.
- An almost
fanatical dedication and commitment to our customers'
satisfaction and our determination to go the extra mile
for the customer.
- Multiple,
Redundant Connectivity - UUNet, Sprint, AT&T,
GlobalCrossing, Level 3 and Teleglobe with a 100% Uptime
guarantee.
Main Customer
Superb's customer base includes a wide variety of small,
medium and large companies.
We host over 250,000 domains worldwide. Some of the better
known ones are Dezines, Internetters, Intuit, Olgivy, World
Health Organization to name but a few.
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Company
Description
Superb Internet's award-winning web hosting services
provide web hosting customers everything their web site
needs to grow and flourish online. We believe that web
hosting is more than just 'raw space' and an Internet
address. These days, that simply won't do. To stay ahead of
the rest, you need to be able to use powerful databases,
Java™, FrontPage® 2000, real-time audio, custom CGI's, and
more. Our servers can handle almost anything, and if they
can't handle something you need, just ask and it'll be
set-up right away (or, alternatively, you can install
virtually anything you'd like in your own cgibin directory).
We are committed to staying ahead of the rest in innovation
and having all what you could ever need or want
pre-installed.
Founded back in 1996, Superb Internet has had consistent
rock-solid service. Superb was founded by Haralds Jass, a
web developer that could no longer tolerate the poor service
of his Web Host and believed he could do it faster, better,
and be more accommodating to his customer needs. It is this
foundation and the devoted adherence to it that makes Superb
great. Superb Internet has won and continues to win many of
the web hosting industry's awards as one of the best in a
market shared by thousands
Superb Internet delivers superior managed web hosting and
dedicated server solutions to web hosting customers located
around the globe. Superb provides a comprehensive range of
advanced web hosting solutions ranging from Unix®/NT virtual
accounts, up to superior Unix®, Linux®, NT/W2K, RaQ and SUN
Dedicated/Colocated services, all backed by an
industry-leading 100% Network Uptime guarantee.
Additionally, Superb has developed the Superb Power Server,
an exceptionally powerful web hosting solution that provides
much of the service level found with a dedicated server at a
fraction of the cost.
Superb offers lightning fast, redundant connectivity to most
major Internet backbones supported by 24x7 server monitoring
and dedicated customer support. Superb's Network
Operation Centre contains great connectivity using 6 DS-3s
on 2 redundant OC-12s, and a future upgrade to the system.
With Cisco routers and switches and fully redundant paths,
it's no wonder Superb can deliver on their 100% Network
uptime guarantee.
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Company
and Website's Objectives
The objective of Superb's web site is the same as it is for
everyone at Superb, to ensure that we provide a level of
service that ensures the very best possible customer
experience, whether it is navigating the web site or
contacting our 24x7 customer support.
Here at Superb, we recognize that first and foremost, we are
here to provide a first-rate service for our customers. As
is evident by the numerous testimonials we have on our
website (in fact our homepage is introduced by quotes from
happy customers) and the extensive array of web hosting
awards we have received, Superb has been extremely
successful in achieving a high degree of customer
satisfaction. We are especially proud of how happy our
customers are with the service we provide and you only have
to read the extensive list of comments from satisfied
clients to recognize that we enjoy working with and helping
our customers. All of our professional support and sales
staff members have gone through extensive customer service
training and were hired for their desire to work with and
help web hosting customers.
Additionally one of the primary objective's of Superb is to
ensure successful growth management. Professional growth
management, performed in a responsible manner, is essential
for a rapidly growing web hosting company like Superb
Internet. We are extremely proud that our expansion is and
has always proceeded without any of the common "growing
pains" faced by others. By proactively adding new
equipment, servers and connectivity, along with hiring
exceptional staff, Superb maintains the highest quality of
service.
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| Briefly
describe a few top-notch hosting features that SUPERB is
providing for its clients. While
Superb delivers a full range of web hosting services, which
include advanced web hosting solutions ranging from Unix®/NT
virtual accounts, up to superior Unix®, Linux®, NT/W2K, RaQ
and SUN Dedicated/Colocated services, it is best known for
the quality of technical support that it gives all its
customers.
While others focus on price and features, Superb prefers to
focus on the needs of the customer, which is why Superb is
extremely dedicated to being available to its customers
24x7, whether it be by phone, email or through its Customer
Support System.
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Please
tell us about yourself, and how you got started providing
hosting services over the Internet?
Haralds Jass is the President, Founder and CEO of Superb
Internet and takes an active role in all aspects of company
operations. Prior to founding Superb Internet in 1996, he
created and operated an online interactive entertainment
venture named Superb Entertainment (1994 - 1996), the lack
of hosting infrastructure for which led to the launch of
Superb Internet.
"I started Superb because I could not tolerate poor
service from the hosting company I was using. I still won't
tolerate poor service from my web hosting company." -
Haralds Jass, Founder, CEO, Superb Internet
Haralds is a continuous pursuer of perfection, as reflected
not only in the company name - Superb Internet - but also in
Superb's focus on customer care, and in the company motto,
"Ahead of the Rest."®
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me something about yourself. How much risk are you willing to
take to ensure SUPERB 's success? Superb
has always been determined to be "Ahead of the
Rest" in the market place. To this extent, we
continuously research and analyse potential new web hosting
avenues.
We were the first Web hosting company to provide
HTTP/1.1-based Virtual Pointer Service - non-unique-IP based
virtual Web & E-mail services ($5/month http://yourdomain
and E-mail@yourdomain), the first to offer Virtual DNS (ns1
and ns2.yourdomain.com fully qualified DNS), and we are
among the forerunners of NT Virtual Pointer (non-IP) virtual
service, as well as Superb Power Server (Virtual Private
Server technology) providers. We are a pioneer in opening up
new areas in advanced web hosting services.
We are continually evaluating new technologies and
innovations and as it becomes clear that one will gain
market prevalence, we evaluate our current services and
decide whether or not these new technologies are
appropriate to our product mix and our place in the
marketplace. Once we have do so, we then decide whether or
not we will simply enhance our services accordingly or in
many cases, decide to take these technologies and
innovations to another level, in order for Superb to
continue to be a leader with technologies and services which
are "Ahead of the Rest".
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| How
many years have you been in the web hosting business? While
Superb was founded in 1996, Superb's management team has
been involved with web hosting since 1993.
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| How
do you build strong customer relationships with your current
customers? Besides
the above mentioned dedication to serving the customer's
needs, Superb undertakes to ensure that our customers
participate in the direction and growth of the company. To
this end, we regularly conduct customer surveys in order to
get first hand, what our customers would like to see in both
our existing and new service offerings.
At Superb, we believe in providing stable, top-quality
services and support at affordable and competitive prices.
We have never raised our prices, nor plan to do so. We
regularly conduct market studies, to ensure our prices are
competitive and at times may reduce them, but only to the
extent where we can provide quality service without
compromises.
At Superb Internet, we do not cut corners. Quality always
comes first. We have long term plans and a company vision
set for years ahead. Our customers can rest assured that we
are here now, and will be here for many years.
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| Can
you please share with us your vision of SUPERB in the year
2003? The
industry has been and continues to move towards higher
levels of performance and service. We are proud to be one of
the first web hosting companies to have introduced a 100%
uptime, no packet loss, sub-3ms latency SLA in January of
2001. Since then, we've seen a few of our competitors match
it, however, most are still working based on
simpler, "first generation," 99.9% uptime SLAs. We
believe that a year from now, in order to stay competitive,
hosting companies will need to further increase their
network reliability and redundancy and offer and - most
important of all - live up to, a "second
generation" 100% uptime SLA similar to ours (also
covering other key
issues, such as packet loss and latency), especially for the
higher-end of services.
On the services front, the move towards greater automation,
ease-of-use and integration continues and will continue for
the coming few years. I believe that the focus we'll see in
the coming year or two will be on adding more features
within the scope of automated ease-to-use services, that is
- ensuring that functionality and features are not
compromised to the "ease-of-use," that both the
beginner and power users have all the features they need
available, with the focus shifting to better meeting the
needs of the latter.
Five years from now, the Internet will be much more
accessible and may even become the prevailing medium of
choice in most countries, especially developing nations as
they are not constrained by legacy systems. In many of these
countries, IP-based technology will be the medium of choice
and a large percentage of the population will derive not
only the Internet, but also their telephone and TV over an
IP-based system. Additionally, as technology and
infrastructure continues to develop and improve, the
streaming media marketplace will see a tremendous
resurgence, as true real-time experiences become a reality.
It will be essential that these companies at the heart of
this transformation, especially the leading-edge web hosting
companies such as Superb to be able to deliver a more
elevated, even more mission-critical level of service such
as 100% uptime, low latency and no packet loss. Additionally
these companies will have to provide content which is
compatible and accessible to a wide range of IP-based
appliances, not just PCs, and Macs or Internet-enabled TVs
and do so at both broadband and narrowband frequencies.
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