April 9, 2013

Windstream Hosted Solutions Latest Modular Data Center

Compass data centers has completed its first modular data center ahead of schedule. Compass Datacenters has completed its first truly modular data center built for Windstream Hosted Solutions. The new facililty is located in Franklin, Tennessee (a suburb of Nashville) […]
April 2, 2013

Connecting Tenants Inside The Data Center

Inside the MMR each tenant connects to pre-installed hardware located on a secure side of the room. Inside the data center, meet-me-rooms connect carriers to tenants. In a carrier neutral facility, multiple colocation providers will use the MMR (meet-me-room) to […]
April 2, 2013

Top 10 Troubleshooting Tips for Webmasters

Here are the top 10 troubleshooting tips you can use to diagnose a problem before calling your hosting provider. The responsibility of maintaining a website and ensuring its uptime falls to you as a webmaster. Below are 10 troubleshooting tips […]
April 1, 2013

Data Center Design for Tomorrow

The modular data center is a portable data center deployed on site or wherever greater capacity is needed. As our global economy recovers, professionals in both the public and private sector look for ways to improve data center design while […]
March 13, 2013

Global DNS and load balancing: How fast is fast enough?

Having many servers in different locations obviously increases redundancy and resilience. Electromagnetic signals travel very quickly. The fastest they can go is the speed of light in a vacuum (c), but in practice communications signals tend to travel at some […]