Opening our new datacenter!
November 22nd, 2006 by mhalliganWell, it’s official! We signed a 7-year contract for 300 square ft of datacenter space at Fortress in Seattle, WA. At the very least, I can say that I’m very excited about this new facility. I have a really good feeling about the owner, the facility itself, and the location. Our deal is pretty sweet as we’re their second customer, so the economics of the place are far better than anything in the bay area.
Over the next few months I’m hoping to detail all of the steps involved with rolling out our new datacenter. The first two steps, which were reconnaissance & signing a contract, are finally complete. The next two steps are design & purchasing. I’ll be flying up the middle of next week with Dirk to draw out the space, decide on our cabinet layout, and put together a solid diagram from which to create a purchasing list.
December 4th, 2006 at 10:10 am
300 square feet sounds like a lot of space.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:13 am
The rule of thumb is generally that 1 rack = 20 ft^2 of floor space. The racks that we use, however, are 8″ deeper and 4″ wider than a normal rack to allow for cleaner wiring and take up 25 ft^2 . I think we’ll be able to put 12 racks of gear in. This is going to allow us 300% expansion space, which makes us very happy. We’ve also negotiated first right of refusal on another 600 ft^2 of space, just in case we grow faster than our more aggressive projections.
I’ll be posting some pictures of the new facility sometime in the next day. We’re really excited about this new build out, it’s going to be awesome. There’s something about having the time to properly plan a datacenter migration. You’re granted the opportunity to fix any lingering short-cuts you’ve made, and to pretty everything up in the new environment. Seattle is going to be sweet!
December 24th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
why does fortresscolocationcenters.com spells “colocation” wrong on ints entire site? A “collocation” is a lunguistic term….
December 29th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Welcome to an industry that doesn’t know who it wants to be when it grows up. I see colocation spelled very routinely in three ways:
colocation
co-location
collocation
My preference is colocation, because I’m lazy and don’t want to type any extra characters than I have to.