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And the awards for the 3 biggest hosting outages of 2007 go to …

Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Othello  |  No Comments »


#3 Serverbeach During a storm a power feed failure lead to the ServerBeach datacentre to switch onto generator power. Sadly at SB the generators didn’t cover the aircon units, just the servers. Internal temperatures quickly soared to 60+ degrees in the DC, meaning everything had to be immediately shut down to save the building catching […]

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1&1 Internet Plans US $11million DataCentre build

Posted on August 29th, 2006 by Othello  |  No Comments »


1&1 Internet, Inc., the US subsidary of our friends United Internet A.G. announced 24/August/2006 that it will open a new data centre in Lenexa, Kansas City, Kansas, United States, during the 1st quarter 2007. Specifications Approximate cost $11,000,000 Staff 15 Size 55,000 sq.ft. facility Housing upto 40,000 servers Purpose to house the company’s U.S. and […]

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