Having enough bandwidth for your servers won't do you any good if there isn't enough power at your data center Power allocation in data centers is becoming an increasing problem these days with rising oil prices and increasing power costs

When it comes to hosting your servers, the number of other servers located in the facility is a very important consideration Some people find themselves being in the position of having started hosting at a data center when it was brand new and not many people knew about it yet

When it comes to colocation and data centers, bandwidth used to be the major concern and clients needed to make sure they had enough of it Now, however, there’s a new concern: Power

Businesses are always looking for ways to increase profits After all, that is the nature of business- providing a product or service that helps people solve a problem at a profit

Efficient and effective cooling is absolutely essential to data centers Servers generate heat and the more servers that are in the data center, the quicker the room will heat up and the more likely it becomes that the server room will over heat

Having enough bandwidth for your servers won't do you any good if there isn't enough power at your data center Power allocation in data centers is becoming an increasing problem these days with rising oil prices and increasing power costs

Hosting your servers in a leased data center is one problem that most people don’t even consider when deciding on a colocation facility But if you’re serious about finding a reliable provider, this is something you need to consider

Everyone's heard the old adage, don't put all your eggs in one basket Whether you think it's good or bad advice, it has its merits and it certainly applies to your servers

When it comes to hosting your servers, the number of other servers located in the facility is a very important consideration Some people find themselves being in the position of having started hosting at a data center when it was brand new and not many people knew about it yet

Before you start ripping your clothes off, naked DSL isn’t what it sounds like Normally if you want to have DSL service, you need to have a traditional phone line from the same company as well

Going wireless with Internet connections these days is turning into a trend, and one that many of us are starting to enjoy The convenience of being able to stay connected at any spot, or two feet, or ten feet away from ‘any spot’, is delightful, we must admit

Not all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are the same – and the difference lies in more than the type of wire used to get your machines connected One of the most important strategic factors a business should be considering when signing up for a service is the type of IP address the ISP can provide

Internet Access in the Past When the Internet was first introduced on the consumer market, the only option available was a dial-up connection Then, when companies realized that people wanted to be able to talk on the phone at the same time as they used the Internet, cable companies began offering Internet service through existing cable lines

One thing that many businesses don’t think about is the need to have a second connection to the internet as backup Most people realize the importance of backing up their data and spend quite a bit of time and energy configuring just the right backup system in case of a disaster or other event where they lose all their data

This is what the perfect DSL provider looks like The Internet – that beloved business necessity we can’t imagine our lives without anymore Now it comes in all shapes, sizes and colours

It’s too risky The love of wireless is taking the world by storm and there are movements, both underground and hierarchical, to make cities wireless ones

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) has become pretty standard in most homes and places of business in recent years since the explosion of the internet DSL, sometimes referred to as XDSL, is a general term for a family of technology

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Internet is a form of Internet commonly used today by taking advantage of existing telephone infrastructure lines and manipulating them so that a wire not only transmits voice, but also data The technique has exploded in popularity and competes directly against cable Internet subscriptions

There was a time when DSL was the fastest way to access the internet Gone are the days of dial-up, and cable comes with its share of problems

Zinc whiskers are a common phenomenon when it comes to data and colocation centers (sometimes called ‘data farms’), yet they can go unnoticed for years before they become a nuisance and a serious threat to server machines To say that the problem ‘grows’ can be somewhat accurate (even though we know zinc is not an organic substance); the whiskers are formed from pressure that eventually lifts off little pieces of zinc from metal to create microscopic threads that get longer and longer over time

We’ve all had that personal experience of losing hundreds of files and hours of work due to a computer crash right at the most inconvenient moment Imagine a crash like that affecting a company that holds information computers pertinent to the survival of its place in the market

Deciding which hosting services to go with can be compared to the decision between hiring a limousine driver or…driving your own limousine It’s all about how much work you want to do and how much you want to invest at the start of your venture

The hot aisle/cold aisle system is an innovative approach to managing temperatures in a data center Most of the energy that is required to run data center that offers collocation is spent on cooling efforts, making sure the temperature is just right for a machine

With thousands of servers running throughout the day and night, data centers are notorious for consuming energy As people are becoming more and more aware of the ever-increasing energy use, data centers are starting to find ways to lower their consumption

When a data colocation company talks about “tiers”, they are referring to the different levels of reliability they can offer for your server maintenance and storage This grading system ranges from Tier I to Tier IV, with IV being the topmost reliability in power, cooling and availability