Choosing which datacenter to place your servers in is a fundamentally important decision to safeguard your customers business along with your own.\u00a0 Why am I writing this? Because I am alarmed at the continual poor choice of datacenter by many of our competitors.<\/p>\n
Our two main locations are in Atlanta and Clifton, NJ (a few miles outside NYC). Why here?<\/p>\n
We still shake our heads in disbelief when some of our major competitors continually choose LA for their datacenters. LA’s a great city. Nice beaches. Too much traffic. But worst of all, when The Big One hits then the telecoms infrastructure goes down. Having studied Geography at college, I know a good amount about earthquakes. And quite simply, one will devastate the IT infrastructure in LA. Well engineered buildings will remain upright due to their dampeners and “suspension” type foundations. But the building is going to shake. Racks will fall over, servers will fall out of racks. This will trip power, may even cause fires and set off fire surpression systems. Fiber will be ripped out from the street. And emergency services are going to respond to human emergencies before they even consider checking a datacenter out.<\/p>\n
Not only this, LA is short on power. Just last week with the fires raging, brownouts happened. Obviously, datacenters cannot afford to go offline during a brownout so they run on their generators. Generators generally run diesel and have\u00a0a finite supply. What happens to that finite supply if you need a redelivery in an emergency? The lights turn off….<\/p>\n
I’m sorry to rant on this subject. I guess it scares me that so many people continue to risk their business and livelihoods in a LA datacenter that is at risk. You have been warned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Choosing which datacenter to place your servers in is a fundamentally important decision to safeguard your customers business along with your own. Why am I writing this? Because I am alarmed at the continual poor choice of datacenter by many of our competitors. Our two main locations are in Atlanta and Clifton, NJ (a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n