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What is a shared Hosting Site and why you should consider housing your mission critical file servers and data storage equipment in one. A facility that is used to provide a power, high speed bandwidth, temperature and humidity control and a high level of physical and internet security. The facility will have multiple levels of redundancy on all of the services it offers and will have generator back-up power for an extended length of time. The cost of building out a tier one data center is beyond the means of all but fortune 500 corporations and can cost upwards of 50 million dollars. By co-locating your production or back-up servers, storage and communication equipment you will benefit from SLA's (Service Level Agreements) that will provide 99.999% of the year guaranteed up time. The organizations providing the data center service handle the data contained by them with utmost security as it is the lifeline of the company. Therefore the data center organization maintains high level or integrity and provides optimum functionality of the computer environment that it hosts for. This is usually shown by the general layout of the data center. The data center can cover the area of a room to an entire building depending upon its size. Most of the data are stored in for of racks with corridors provided between them for easy access. The servers that are available vary from 1u servers to huge silos that occupy various tiles stacked upon the floor. Some of the mainframe computers and storage devices are often as big as the racks and are placed next to them. The communications are mostly based on the ip protocol service in most data centers. They are equipped with routers and switches which comprise of the critical components that act as transporters of traffic to the outside world from the servers. Using two or more upstream service providers provide redundancy to the available internet connection. Some of the datacenters run the basic internet and intranet services like email servers, proxy servers, DNS servers etc. As mentioned earlier, the data that is available in the centers are treated with utmost security. Many network security elements are employed to keep the data safe. Such as firewalls, VPN gateway, Intrusion detection systems to detect malicious activities etc. are incorporated. Common monitoring systems and other such applications are also available. For added security for emergency situations such as failure of communication inside the data center, offsite monitoring systems are also provided. Hosting in a Data Center is an economical way to provide a solution to a Disaster recovery site for your production equipment. It is also an economical way to ensure your production equipment is in a safe secure monitored environment that is always available. |
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