Email Relay is fully-owned and operated by Avantex Hosting, one of America's oldest and largest Web hosting organization, and part of the GCIS group of companies. (The General Center for Internet Services Inc.)

Committed to the success and the reliable operation of its email service for all its users, Email Relay has invested massively in the construction of its most modern and state-of-the-art infrastructures.

All our data centers are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by experienced technical personnel, both in the Linux and Windows operating system. Additionally, our modern data centers incorporate full fire protection, are completely air-conditioned and supervized by security personnel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Strategically located in some of the largest cities in North America, including San Diego, CA., Dallas, TX., Fort-Lauderdale, FL., Hoboken, NJ., Kelowna, BC., Toronto, ON. and Montreal, QC., Email Relay's data centers integrate the latest in high technology equipment, data routers, Linux servers, Microsoft Windows 2003 servers, load-balancing servers and switches, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), industrial diesel power generators, etc.

Our state-of-the-art data centers feature raised floors with downdraft forced-air cooling and redundant FE-25 gas fire suppression systems. For full data backup protection, all our data centers boast industrial-grade diesel generators, complete with automated UPS's (Uninterruptible Power Supplies).

Our modern hosting installations dramatically increase the level of network redundancy that we can offer our corporate clients, by adding additional fiber optic connections to our existing infrastructures.

Email Relay's data centers include redundant Internet backbone connections, through multiple OC-48 and OC-192 data pipes.

It also consists of Gig-E data connections, providing the best email services. Email Relay can provide the highest Internet and email bandwidth in the industry, thanks to our five major Tier-1 providers: AT&T, Global Crossing, Sprint, MCI and UuNet.