What is Redundancy in Pay Per Head?

One of the things you hear pay per head offices stress on is their “redundancy”.  You may be asking yourself, what is redundancy?  Why is it so important for an offshore sportsbook to have it?

Redundancy is having a backup in case you lose electricity, internet, database servers or the phones go down. Well, if you live in the United States you may be saying, “well, that very rarely happens”.  However, in Costa Rica losing electricity, Internet and phones is a common occurrence especially in September and October which is the busiest season as the NFL is in full force. September and October just happen to be the two months with the strongest tropical storms in Costa Rica.

Many companies, especially those that offer a cheap price lower than $15 per head might and often have no back up redundancy or a minimum back up like a battery that lasts at least 40 minutes. 

You can save some money by risking it and going with a cheap service but just for you to know, they will go down and the few dollars you saved will become a big loss if your players can’t place their bets and they all place claims for the winners they had while the power was out.  In all the years in this business ask anyone if they received a claim for a loser. The answer is NO by the way.

So in choosing a Pay Per Head company make sure to do your homework and make sure they have the proper backup system in place.

Companies like PremierPerHead.com have 5 times redundancy (3x Phones/Internet, Data and Electricity) and their back up is seamless which means even though they are operating on a backup system the players do not notice any difference. Having this many backups is very expensive, especially here in Costa Rica where it can go up to 20 grand per month.  However,  PremierPerHead.com understands the most important thing is to make 100% sure that come game time their agents’ players can log on or call in to place their bets.