As the economy begins to bounce back from the doldrums of recession, online companies are beginning to look for space to house their enterprises, with eyes on reliability, power stability, services experience and versatility in hosting services. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Atlanta Data Center hosts numerous companies in the Marietta and Williams Streets addresses. These companies are categorized in three tiers, the largest service companies being the top or first tier. SunGuard, Savvis, Verizon and AT&T are some of the first-tier companies that reside there. The middle tier includes Peak 10 and Atlanta NAP, and the third tier consists of smaller companies that cater to lower-priced enterprises.

Not only do small-scale sites need 24-hour presence in the nether world because of the nature of their products, but they need power stability, reliable back-up service and ease of interconnectivity. Atlanta Hosting can offer all these and other things besides.

As example, the design of Atlanta Center incorporates the capability of hosting networks with wide ranges of bandwidths.  As part of the Tulix Systems, Inc., the Center was in fact conceptualized to offer its services to Tier 1 data providers as priority clients. Furthermore, it was made to be custom-versatile, able to adapt itself to its customer’s specific requirements in this fast-evolving virtual business world.

The qualities of Atlanta Colo that convinced these companies to locate there are naturally applicable to other similar, even much smaller, enterprises as well.

One of its advantages offered to potential customers is its proximity to fiber optic nerve centers and lines, which offer faster-than-standard connectivity speeds. Also, the Center is connected to the major POP TELX Marietta 55, which accesses hundreds of national and region-wide data providers. Furthermore, the Center’s fiber network utilizes the latest-technology SONET and FDDI systems in the network circuits. The SONET protocols move multiple bit streams digitally in optical fibers via lasers or light-emitting diodes (LED) . Top-of-the-line Cisco routers and switches link the Center to the Web, continuously on, and with the capability to redistribute traffic loads through HRSP when failure happens, to maintain site downtime to the barest minimum possible.

Another advantage the center offers to prospective provider client sites is its European and North American GigE connections. The Center uses Telia-Soniera as provider for their primary direct link with their Europe backbone, Level III Communications for the North American connection, as well as Cogent Communications, also for Europe.

The Center is designed for all-the-time performance and availability, with backup servers activating in lieu of production servers when failure occurs, which is, historically, very rare. Backing up is done daily or,  —optionally, weekly– basis to ensure data availability and uptime at 90% for shared servers, and 99.5% availability for dedicated servers. To do this, the Atlanta Center has redundant SNMP-management for its servers, with the secondary one in a remote location that ensures detection of problems the internal SNMP monitor may not have detected.

In its design and construction the Center was primarily intended to be the leading data center services provider, a thing which it has successfully performed since 1994. In the data service field, leadership means top performance all the time.

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