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We are very excited to announce the opening of our newest and largest data center in Toronto Canada. At more than 40,000 square feet, this new data center is more than twice the size of a professional hockey rink and marks the first time we’re offering all three hosting solutions (colocation, dedicated hosting and managed hosting – in Canada).

“The Internet is a vital platform for our customers, and it continues to grow,” said Fabio Banducci, president and CEO for PEER 1 Hosting. “Our new state-of-the-art Toronto data centre ensures we stay current and provide the fastest and most reliable network to serve our customers, now and in the future, while providing PEER 1 with enhanced flexible capacity to support its own growth.”

This is the most efficient data center we’ve built to date, with increased power densities, high reliability, and robust security. Building it in four sections, with each section built as a separate Performance Optimized Data Centre (POD), enabling customers to expand their data center capacity faster than ever before.

The new data center utilizes some of the most efficient products and technologies on the market. This includes a redundant critical cooling infrastructure using both a local well for primary water supply and a connection to the city’s water system.

“We’re also using redundant high-efficiency Variable Frequency Drive centrifugal chillers to reduce cooling costs and condenser towers with economizers,” adds Ryan Murphey, vice president of facilities and data center operations for PEER 1 Hosting. “This enables PEER 1 to lessen the environmental impact of the data center by taking advantage of “free cooling” when the temperature drops below 10C.”

This data center marks our third data center in Toronto and 17th worldwide, adding to our managed network spanning 13,000 route miles of fibre.

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WHIR tv continues to cover the ongoing construction of our new flagship data center in Toronto, Canada.

On January 12th the World was notified of an earthquake that devastated Haiti. The severity of this earthquake has not only caused mental and physical pain and suffering, there has been a critical shortage of supplies and assistance to help the Haitian people through their crisis. Numerous individuals and businesses from around the World have come together to provide assistance in any way they can and today, we’re joining these forces.

Today, the hosting community is coming together as an industry to do our part. We’ve set aside our competitiveness and joined in numbers to help in the relief effort by launching a new Web site – Hosting for Haiti (http://www.hostingforhaiti.com/).  We are grateful to be able to take part in this relief effort along side The Planet, Rackspace, GoGrid, and ServInt.

We’ve partnered with the American Red Cross to provide support, which may include mobilizing relief workers, sending relief supplies, and providing financial resources for recovery. Every dollar donated through our Hosting for Haiti site goes directly to them, an organization that can make the biggest difference in disaster relief. 

We hope that you will join us by making a donation – we know that together, we can make a difference.

If you’re one of our industry partners and want to join us, contact us at info@hostingforhaiti.com about joining the cause. Please help spread the word by sharing the link and information to help provide much needed relief for those in Haiti. 

You can follow the progress of these efforts on Twitter by following @hostingforhaiti http://twitter.com/hostingforhaiti (use the hash tag #hostingforhaiti). 

Become a fan of PEER 1 Hosting today!

You’ve all heard of FaceBook and you’ve all heard of PEER 1 Hosting (okay, maybe not all of you, but we’d like to think so!). If you haven’t already fan’d us we encourage you to head on over to FaceBook, become a fan, and join the discussions.

We’d love to hear your feedback on our discussion board as well as seeing any tips & tricks or ideas that you have. Does your business develop cool and unique products? Are you a developer who has a book full of tips to share? Have you just launched a new product and want to share it? We want to know!

If you have suggestions of what you’d like to see discussed on the PEER 1 Hosting FaceBook page or ideas that you’d like to see us include on our page in general, send me an e-mail at cpugsley@peer1.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Share your business, discuss web hosting, and get updates on what’s happening at PEER 1 Hosting – http://tinyurl.com/peer1hosting

WHIR tv continues to cover the ongoing construction of our new flagship data center in Toronto, Canada.

PEER 1 Hosting would like to ask you for your help in reaching more people on the net. Place one of our PEER 1 badges on your website(s), and get a free limited edition PEER 1 T-Shirt mailed to you! Just copy and paste the code from one of our badges or banners onto your website, and send me a link to your site as proof. That’s it! We encourage you to place the badge or banner in your website footer and/or sidebar.

Badges with code can be found here: http://www.peer1.com/resources/badges.php

Email Charnell at cpugsley@peer1.com or send a tweet to @PEER1 on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/peer1) with a link to your site showing the badge, and we’ll get a T-shirt sent to you right away!

From time to time we like to highlight a customer of ours that is really doing something cool and cutting-edge. So if you haven’t checked out knoodle.com yet, give it a look and ponder…

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LEARN TODAY?

Knoodle (www.knoodle.com) is a Web 2.0 e-learning service that allows individuals, businesses, and schools to publish and deliver free or fee-based education through multi-media presentations. Instructors can upload videos and slides, and synchronize them together into a webinar-like lesson using Knoodle’s proprietary Play ‘n Sync™ technology. The instructor can set their own prices for lessons and collect payment using the integrated PayPal feature. Customers of Knoodle include Fortune 1000 companies and top-ranked universities, as well as individual Craigslist instructors.

Visit www.knoodle.com or email chief@knoodle.com for more information.

What is the perfect hosting environment for early stage entrepreneurs?

FutureHosting brings together leading industry strategists and technologists to debate the perfect hosting environment for early stage entrepreneurs as the hosting market evolves towards an on-demand model. The discussion follows on from our PEER 1 sponsored panel at Structure 09. It will feature industry thought-leaders debating direction for customers and providers within the fast-moving hosting environment, delivery of platform-as-a-service, and optimizing scalable hosting and cost-effectiveness for start-up businesses.

Moderator:

Om Malik
Founder
The GigaOM Network

Panelists:

Byron Sebastian
CEO
Heroku

Jason Hoffman
CTO
Joyent

Sebastian Stadil
Founder
Scalr

Robert Miggins
SVP BizDev
PEER 1

Don’t miss your chance to watch the free live webstream on December 3, 2009 as these panelists discuss and debate one of the hottest topics on the Internet today – http://www.peer1.com/hosting/futurehosting.php

Apprenda, the creator of SaaSGrid, the world’s first SaaS application server,  announced today that the company has closed a $5 million investment round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a leading global venture capital firm with a 30-year track record of successful investing in companies including Salesforce.com, WebEx, Juniper Networks and XenSource.  Existing investor High Peaks Venture Partners also participated in the round of funding.

With SaaSGrid, Apprenda has changed the way that software is built and delivered, providing a solution to the architecture and management complexities of delivering software across distributed web scale environments. Cloud computing is driving software companies toward on-demand delivery models and enterprises toward aggregating internal and external compute resources into cohesive delivery networks for their internal software. SaaSGrid, a distributed application execution layer, mitigates the traditional burdens associated with tackling these trends. As a result, SaaS companies and enterprises alike can dramatically reduce time to market and service delivery costs.

Full press release.