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Data Center Information
Trusted 1-st class Data Center in Fremont, California - owned and operated by Peer1 Networks.
While many hosting companies choose low cost colocation and Cogent cheap bandwidth, we have chosen quality colocation and good bandwidth provider over the extra money we would save if we choose lower quality Data Center and Cogent bandwidth.
Unlike many hosting companies - our Data Center do not depend on a single Internet connection. Our Data Center upstream providers are: AT&T, Savvis, Sprint and MCI. If any of them fails for some reason - our traffic is automatically switched through the routers to a different upstream provider
Why do we claim our Data Center is 1-st class ?
Our Data Center uses Juniper M20 routers as border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in their distribution layer and Cisco 6500 switches in their aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer.
Their network is fully meshed and redundant with several backbone providers.
Here are the things that matters in one good Data Center:
1. Good power - each server uses about 200 up to 550 watts of power. Having hundreds of servers in one place, means lots of power usage. If the power system is not good - servers will start to fail. Our Data Center is constantly increasing their power network and ability to colocate more and powerful servers.
2. Cooling - the problem of each Data Center beside the power is how to cool all this heat that servers produce. One rack of servers produce about 3000 up to 7000 watts of heating power. By having only a few dozen of racks - it means a massive heat problem. For us - taking the pictures of the Data Center was not an easy task, as the temperature inside was about 18 C that's about 64 F. The temperature inside our servers is between 24 C (75 F) and 30 C (86 F). This guarantee longer life of our hardware. If you measure the temperature of your PC - you will notice it is between 37 C (98 F) and 45 C (113 F) and it is not even any hard load.
3. UPS and generators - loosing power happens all over the world in any place (including the White House). That's why it is critical to have independent power generators and UPS that could handle long enough, while the generator engage. Peer1 Data Center has a massive 500 kW generator, that hits in just a several minutes if the Data Center loose power
4. Well trained 24/7 staff - it is possible every server to have a hardware failure. In such cases fast actions from the tech in the Data Center are required. But speed is not the only important thing. The tech guys over there must be able not only to replace the faulty hardware fast, but to do not mess up something else. They must be careful when taking server down, removing or replacing parts and knowing exactly what to do. The staff in our Data Center is one of the best in the area of Fremont, CA and they do everything as it is by the book.
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