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Information about Allcore Communications

Allcore Communications was established in 1997, was incorporated in 2000, and opened its first office in May 2001. The company began focusing on providing telecommunication solutions for consumers and small to medium-sized businesses with a wide range of applications and services based on the latest communications technologies. Allcore Communications is in the following industries – Information Technology, Internet, Web Design, and Web Hosting. Their headquarters is located in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada

Allcore Communications now provides a complete solution for residential and business Internet access across North America and has customers in 60 different countries around the world. Our services also include traditional and VoIP phone services, toll-free numbers, website hosting, data center services, cloud backup, cloud computing, and internet connectivity.

They claim to hire only local staff and have customers in 27 countries around the world

Allcore.ca operates several purpose-built data centers throughout Ontario offering complete redundancy in power, HVAC, network connectivity, and security. Each customer is unique and so are their connectivity and colocation needs, with this in mind we can always build a solution to meet any of our client’s needs. Our solutions include full colocation cabinets, half cabinets, partial cabinets, and server colocation as small as 1U. Looking for custom cages or suites, give us a call, we can accommodate your needs.

To ensure the fastest and most reliable routing of traffic, we have multiple connections to major tier-1 Internet backbone carriers with Gigabit Ethernet connections utilizing HSRP and BGP-4 routing protocol. Our data center power is completely independent of the building, powered by APCC UPS battery backup power with an onsite diesel generator. Our backup diesel generator system is tested weekly to make sure everything is properly functioning in order in case of power grid failure. Our HVAC systems provide redundant cooling and humidity to ensure guaranteed operating temperature between 55°F and 65°F. Physical security is provided by archived CCTV and monitored key card access.

Services and Features that xxxxxx offers are the following.

As far as hosting goes Allcore.ca offers two services Cloud Servers and Colocation services, their cloud server hosting starts at only $50.00 a month they don’t show pricing on their colocation services you will need to contact them about that.

Data Center SpecificationsNetwork SpecificationsEnvironment SpecificationsSecurity Specifications
Privately owned state-of-the-art data center facilityMultiple GigE (Gigabit Ethernet) backbone trunks from tier-1 Internet backbone carriersOperating Temperature: 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F)24 x 7 building security monitoring
ULC-3 Secure facility (certified by the Underwriters Laboratory of Canada)12Gbps of available bandwidthOperating Relative Humidity: 20% to 80% (non-condensing)24 x 7 CCTV (closed circuit television) surveillance
A completely independent electrical gridFully redundant core Cisco routers and Cisco switches utilizing Cisco’s Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)Limited secure key card access to all secure data center locations
Redundant air conditioning systems with humidity controlReal-time network intrusion protection and high-performance deep packet inspection for extended protectionAccess logging on all keys card access doors
Backup diesel generator power for unlimited runtime in the event of utility power failureBurstable and uncapped bandwidth to every customer24 x 7 environment and network monitoring and response by our senior network engineers
State-of-the-art APCC “InfraStruXure” racks with standalone APCC PDU’s in each rackNetwork latency optimized routing with excellent connectivity time in Canada (45ms), U.S.A. (59ms) and Europe (109ms)

In their words “One of the key features that sets Their company apart is our Allcore Complete Care Managed IT Services package. This managed IT package covers EVERY aspect of your IT and Telecom service and expense in a simple, easy understand, and easy to budget plan. Most of their clients save 25% to 50% over their existing service providers. Their plans include full on-site service & support, Allcore managed firewall appliance, Allcore managed backup and recovery, Allcore continuity planning, Anti-Virus & Malware, SPAM scanning, internet access, and phone service for your staff.

At Allcore they believe customer success is a combination of planning, preparation, and preventative maintenance.  By being proactive and anticipating what could happen we can prevent 95% of issues that could impact your business in a negative way.

For those few situations that could potentially make for a difficult day, we are prepared with backups, disaster recovery, and continuity plans.

Some stats on Allcore Communications that might interest you.

Allcore Communications is not BBB accredited business but has been listed since 2002 and had a rating of B- so this is ok they do have one review/complaint in the last 3 years through the Better Business Bureau, the review is a 1 star out of 5.

Allcore Communications Dun&Bradstreet shoes their out of Hamilton Ontario, not Ancaster so it is possible they have moved their business, it shows that they have a total of 9 employees across all of their locations and generates $1.65 million in sales, they show four contacts, James Johnson, Katherine Johnson, Andrew Martin, and Mary Lovino.

Some other Stats provided by SemRush that might interest you about Allcore Communications have 1.7K backlinks from 304 different referring domains, They have an Authority Score of 27 which is not bad,  86% of their organic search traffic comes from Canada while 4.3% comes from The United States 3.3% from Australia, 2.2% from The United Kingdom and 4.3% from other countries. The majority of Allcore Communications‘s search engine traffic comes from the Following keywords below.

  1. All Core
  2. Why does internet go down
  3. What causes internet to go down
  4. Allcore
  5. Dust Bunnies Cleaning

Some details about the speed of the host, now these may not be the same speeds you’ll get since first it will depend on the services you buy, your website design, size of images/videos, etc.. also the host may or may not be using a faster server to host their hosting sales page at any rate here is the speed information tested on there front page.

GTmetrix – gives them a D grade with 56% Performance and 77% Structure tested from Vancouver, Canada.

GTmetrix Performance MetricsSpeed/score
First Contentful Paint – good user experience is 0.9 s or less2.5 s
Speed Index – good user experience is 1.3 s or less3.9 s
Largest Contentful Paint – good user experience is 1.2 s or less2.8 s
Time To Interactive – good user experience is 2.5 s or less4.0 s
Total Blocking Time – good user experience is 150 ms or less222 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift – good user experience is a score of 0.1 s or less0.03

Pingdom – gives Allcore Communications a C grade of 73 with a load time of 7.99 s tested from Frankfurt, Germany.

Page Speed Insights – gives their Cell phone page speed a 25 and a 57 for Desktops.

PSI MetricsCell Phone SpeedsDeskTop Speeds
First Contentful Paint3.7 s1.0 s
Speed Index10.8 s5.8 s
Largest Contentful Paint8.2 s2.7 s
Time To Interactive17.3 s4.9 s
Total Blocking Time1270 ms290 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift00.001

Dotcom Tools gives the following –

LocationPerformanceFull Page LoadDOM CompletePage Size
Tel-AvivSlow13.17 s13.09 s 2.4 MB
AmsterdamSlow15.65 s15.56 s2.4 MB
MontrealSlow5.99 s5.39 s2.4 MB
Hong KongSlow12.80 s12.70 s2.4 MB
MiamiSlow10.34 s10.30 s2.4 MB
Average
Duration
VERY SLOW11.59 s11.41 s

Site Checker – gives them 14 out of 100 with a load time of 17.75 seconds For Mobile Phones and 65 out of 100 for Desktop loading in 4.65 seconds tested from Toronto, Canada.

More test results are listed below –

Test from Amsterdam
Total Time3936 ms
Resolve Time99 ms
Connection Time95 ms
Download Time3742 ms
IP Address67.21.150.232
RESPONSE DETAILS
Total size159 kB (158,783 bytes)
Status200 OK
RESPONSE HEADERS
DateFri, 04 Mar 2022 02:35:42 GMT
ServerApache
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Cache-Controlmax-age=2592000
ExpiresSun, 03 Apr 2022 02:35:42 GMT
VaryAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Encoding
Content-Length32618
Keep-Alivetimeout=5, max=100
ConnectionKeep-Alive
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

Social Media Accounts and Blogs

AllCore Communications Inc. They have a social media page on Linkedin which shows 2 employees and 31 followers.

AllCore Communications Inc. has a Pinterest account with 30 followers as of today and 329 monthly views.

AllCore Communications Inc. has a Youtube channel with a total of 3 subscribers.

AllCore Communications Inc. has a Facebook account with no posts and looks like no followers.

AllCore Communications Inc. has a Twitter Account with 161 followers as of today.

AllCore Communications Inc. has a Blog as well here.

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