Connecting Houston since 1999.
The Optimal Link Corporation, also known as Oplink.net, is a premium hosting company serving the Houston metropolitan area. Since 1999, our focus has been affordable, dependable connectivity and personal technical support.
Our infrastructure operates in a premier data center in the Houston area. We offer virtual private servers, dedicated servers, server colocation, and fiber Internet services, with 24/7 support availability.
Customers know us for fast account setup, responsive support tickets, and reliable service.
Built over decades. Still moving forward.
Explore the moments that shaped our network, from Houston dial-up-era infrastructure to high-capacity hosting.
Founded in 1999
The Optimal Link Corporation started in Houston with a mission to offer premium internet and hosting services at an affordable cost.
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The Optimal Link Corporation, also known as Oplink.net, is a premium hosting company located in the Houston metropolitan area. We have served customers since 1999.
Our physical network resides in a premier data center. We offer dedicated servers, virtual servers, colocation, and fiber Internet services, with 24/7 support across our services.
Our approach emphasizes fast account setup, quick email-ticket responses and reliable service.
From local ISP to a major DSL provider
We grew from residential and business internet access into a well-established independent Houston DSL provider.
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Working with AT&T for DSL transport, Oplink.net expanded to serve more than 1,500 DSL subscribers in Houston.
Our earliest internet backbone used a T1 connection to Savvis Communications, together with another T1 for local traffic through the AT&T ATM network.
Lower latency through independent routing
We made a deliberate engineering choice to route customer internet traffic directly through our own Level 3 uplink.
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While many local DSL providers relied on AT&T's ATM infrastructure for both transport and internet uplink, we sent DSL internet traffic directly to Level 3. This helped customers avoid the shared AT&T ATM uplink bottleneck and improved latency.
As customer demand for bandwidth increased, our backbone capacity expanded alongside it.
Dual 100 Gbps internet uplinks
Today, our Houston hosting network connects to both Lumen (formerly Level 3) and Cogent at 100 Gbps each.
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What began with a pair of T1 connections has evolved into a high-capacity, multi-homed network with 100 Gbps uplinks to Lumen and Cogent.
Corero-powered always-on DDoS protection helps shield our edge network; redundant core routers strengthen the design.
Personal technical support, always
Premium personal technical support is a core part of the Oplink.net experience.
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Sharing expert knowledge and hands-on troubleshooting assistance has been a priority from day one. We aim to go above and beyond for clients, whether they need help with server administration, networking or service questions.
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Infrastructure with a personal connection.
Need dedicated servers, a flexible VPS or Houston colocation? Our team is ready to help.
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