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Datacenter Features

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Our servers are housed in the FastServers.Net Datacenters in Cedar Falls, IA and Chicago, IL. We chose this location for the following qualities:

• Reduced risk of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
• Reduced risk of terrorism threats.
• An ample supply of clean and stable power that meets our 100% Uptime guarantee.
• Fast fiber optics with direct peers to major network access points with mass volumes of reliable bandwidth.
• N+1 redundancy on power and cooling within the data center facility.
• Remote location with a minimum of 250 miles from the nearest major airport or metropolitan area.
• Fully redundant GE Power Generators
• Carrier grade 48VDC power and grounding systems
• Highest level of security to meet the high demands for compliance hosting (HIPPA, SOX, SAS70).
• Redundant Liebert Air handlers and management systems
• Dual FM-200 gas and VESDA early smoke detections systems
• Video Surveillance, card and biometric access control systems and proximity/motion detectors

Bandwidth Features

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Our servers utilize the following bandwidth carriers:

• Hurricane Electric
• Internap
• Qwest
• Level3
  

Cooling Features

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Cooling inside a data center is one of the most important aspects of maintaining reliable managed hosting servers. Maintaining a 70 degree or less temperature inside the data center allows servers to run cooler and perform faster at higher availability. Specifically, cooler temperatures reduce the risk of over heating and hardware failure.

Raised floors have traditionally been used in data center rooms for cable management, but they reduce air flow making it harder to maintain consistent cooling. This data center was built without “raised” floors and the cabling is neatly run overhead. With a ceiling almost 15 feet high, large ducts provide direct cool air from above the racks of servers inside the data center.

The aisles of the data center are designed with optimal air flow in mind as well. Each aisle is hot or cold in an alternating pattern according to the direction the servers are racked. Using this alternating scheme and hot and cold aisles, cold air from the cold aisle is vented through the front of the server and exited via the rear of the server to the hot aisle. Warm air from the hot aisle is pulled back into the cooling system to be circulated. This design allows your server to enjoy a cool 70 degrees 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Power Features

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By developing special relationship with the public utility company we were able to secure a reliable power source capable of simultaneously powering up to 25,000 servers. The data center was designed with N+1 power redundancy, which means not only all the power subsystems have automatic failover, but a 3rd unit is kept onsite as a cold spare.

The Midwest Data Center utilizes a special cabinet design built for enterprise level service. Standard rack units are 40U in size, but the additional need for cooling and spacing resulted in custom built 45U cabinets. Two 20AMP circuits are provisioned to each cabinet, each coming from a divergent power source. On the end of the every aisle you notice these strips terminate inside of the overall breaker box. Each one of these power strips are fed by an individual breaker, each one of these breakers is on a different bus on either end of the row.