Lunarpages Data Center
For being one of the biggest hosting companies in the world, Lunarpages truly understand the importance of the data center. Lunarpages has gone extra miles in ensuring a reliable hosting by using the best data center facilities in the world.
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To achieve exceptional redundancy and superior technical hardware, Lunarpages has utilized the facilities of four unparalleled datacenters located in San Diego, Riverside, and Los Angeles, California, as well as Las Vegas, Nevada. These data centers include AIS (San Diego) One Wilshire and Marquisnet, three of the most prestigious buildings in the world. With this point of set up, we can see that Lunarpages is serious on their hosting business and they do provide best to their hosting subscribers.
Also worth mentioning is that AIS the American Internet Services is a Tier 4, certified data center. The data center has provided Lunarpages great back up which includes:-
- Redundant Power
- 24×7x365 Monitoring & Management
- Redundant Network Equipment
- 24×7x365 Customer Service on site
- Redundant Climate Control
- Engineers on Staff 8 AM to Midnight 365 Days
- Redundant Fiber Entrances
- Over 100 Employees
- Redundant Tier One Backbones
- 14 Years in the San Diego Colocation Industry
Looking at their level of investment, no wonder Lunarpages is still standing firm after 8 years of getting into the hosting industry. I believe they really take your website as their business and do their best in hosting them. They are indeed serious in their business, but are you serious about yours?
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What is a data center?
A data center is a secured location to house computers and communications equipments. The purpose of data center is to provide a safe and stable shelter to the computers as well as strong connections connecting the computers to the internet so that they could function stably without any interruptions. Computers here refer to web sever computers which content the web hosting storage.
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Whenever you subscribe to a web hosting, you are actually renting a piece of space in the hard disk of the above mentioned server computer. Files are retrieved from that particular hard disk when there is a request sent from your internet browser. Therefore data center is considered as one of the backbones of a web hosting. If the data center is reliable this means that the hosting service will usually be great. The key phrase here is reliable data center.
What makes a reliable data center?
There are many consideration points in justifying a reliable data centers. As a data center involves a lot of technology whereby various systems are built to support it. Systems are usually inclusive of redundant and backup power supplies, redundant communications connections, environmental controls and security devices. Every system plays an important role. A reliable data center will not be reliable even has just one system less.
Redundant & Backup Power Supplies
When we mention computers, sure we will need power. Therefore power is the number one factor to keep the hosting on for 24/7/365. A good data center usually is backed up by dual ring power network, several UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) and diesel generator.
Redundant Communications Connections
Redundancy is a telecommunications technology whereby data is backed up in another place. This involves communications switches and networking where if one server is out of order, another RAID storage device might kick in to replace the defect device.
Environmental Control
Besides the hardware and connections, it is important to control the data center environment in order for all the systems to function at their optimum performance. As server computers emit heat and sounds while operating, heat management is one of the key things. Air flow, air conditioning and humidity control are important in this case.
Security Devices
Security devices refer to the data center monitoring system. This system serves as a one glance supervising and controlling dashboard. This provides a better maintained data center with faster respond time to unforeseeable problems.
Basically these are the must have systems in order to be reliable data center. To continue, you may want to learn more on the hosting plans by Lunarpages.