As the economy begins to bounce back from the doldrums of recession, online companies are beginning to look for space to house their enterprises, with eyes on reliability, power stability, services experience and versatility in hosting services. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Atlanta Data Center hosts numerous companies in the Marietta and Williams Streets addresses. These companies are categorized in three tiers, the largest service companies being the top or first tier. SunGuard, Savvis, Verizon and AT&T are some of the first-tier companies that reside there. Peak 10, Atlanta NAP are two of those that compose the middle tier, while the third tier are small companies that serve still smaller enterprises.
Because not only do these enterprises need stable power, dependable back-up mechanisms, easy connectivity and some others due to the capacity of their capital and nature of business. Atlanta Hosting provides all these and some more.
As example, the design of Atlanta Center incorporates the capability of hosting networks with wide ranges of bandwidths. As part of the Tulix Systems, Inc., the Center was in fact conceptualized to offer its services to Tier 1 data providers as priority clients. But at the same it is immensely flexible, adaptable to custom requirements and demands of its various clientele in the quickly-evolving world of virtual business.
For many smaller-scale sites –and other-sized sites, for that matter— such characteristics of data center providers as that of Atlanta Colo are the ideal.
One of its advantages offered to potential customers is its proximity to fiber optic nerve centers and lines, which offer faster-than-standard connectivity speeds. ATLDC connects to the main POP TELX’s Marietta 55, which can access over a hundred national and regional providers. Furthermore, the Center’s fiber network utilizes the latest-technology SONET and FDDI systems in the network circuits. The SONET protocols move multiple bit streams digitally in optical fibers via lasers or light-emitting diodes (LED) . Top-of-the-line Cisco routers and switches link the Center to the Web, continuously on, and with the capability to redistribute traffic loads through HRSP when failure happens, to maintain site downtime to the barest minimum possible.
Another advantage the center offers to prospective provider client sites is its European and North American GigE connections. The Telia-Sonera is the European provider of backbone direct link, Level III Communications is the one for North America, and likewise for Europe, Cogent Communications.
The Center is designed for all-the-time performance and availability, with backup servers activating in lieu of production servers when failure occurs, which is, historically, very rare. Backing up is done daily or, —optionally, weekly– basis to ensure data availability and uptime at 90% for shared servers, and 99.5% availability for dedicated servers. To do this, the Atlanta Center has redundant SNMP-management for its servers, with the secondary one in a remote location that ensures detection of problems the internal SNMP monitor may not have detected.
In its design and construction the Center was primarily intended to be the leading data center services provider, a thing which it has successfully performed since 1994. In the data service field, leadership means top performance all the time.