Managed Hosting with Colocube

Glick provides managed hosting solutions for high-traffic websites through it's managed hosting partner, Colocube (www.colocube.com).


Colocube operates an HPC (High Performance Computing) styled data center environment for its customers. Being an HPC data center involves coverage in many key areas, such as Security, Networking, Power, and Cooling.

In today's environment of ever increasing server power loads and cooling requirements, Colocube stands out with its ability to power and cool the equivalent of 17,300w per rack where most data centers struggle to provide 11,500w per rack. This translates into lower costs while providing enterprise level support, as well as the ability to cool very dense web hosting environments. To put it another way, where most providers are constrained to 30 servers in a 42U rack (typical 1U servers), we are able to get an additional 10 servers in each rack with room to spare.

Colocube excels in being able to custom provision from a list of more than 30 providers for our customers. By default, any customer with Colocube is able to take advantage of the 4 top LECs (Sprint, Level 3, Verizon, AT&T) as well as cogent for media services. We can upon demand provision any other LEC or NAP that our customers need by way of the Telx facility (Formerly the PAIX facility) where more than 80 networks converge in the meet-me room (MMR).

While having high performance networking, power, and cooling are important, so too is the ability to stay "online". Colocube provides the following :

  • Is Built to Tier IV specifications, and adheres to ITIL standards and metrics
  • Features accessibility to more than 20 network providers, including all of the Tier I CLECs such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and Level 3 as well as connectivity availability to media networks like Cogent and Savvis. Our connectivity is N+1 redundant to ensure there is never downtime associated with networking snafus. Our facility is fully protected against fiber cuts by eliminating the single point of failure of only having 1 fiber path
  • Features a power grid that is N+2 with both redundant battery backup systems and generators to ensure that power loss never occurs for our customers. Additionally, our facility is designed to let our customers run at full load. We are capable of cooling 300w/square foot, something that most current or early generation data centers can not provide.
  • Features 110,000 of built data center space, with all services listed above, and fully staffed 24/7/365 in a major metropolitan area (Atlanta)
  • Features full coverage via security cameras throughout the facility in addition to being staffed with personnel 24/7/365 with protected access by way of biometrics for any incoming and outgoing personnel, customers, and equipment. Video is randomly audited to ensure that all policies and security measures are being constantly enforced






 

 

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