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Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Our Newest and Largest Data Centre is Open for Business in Toronto Canada

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

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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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PEER 1 Toronto Data Center Build Out – Video #5

Friday, January 22nd, 2010  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

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


Hosting Companies Unite to Provide Relief for Haiti

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

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). 


PEER 1 Hosting and FaceBook

Monday, January 18th, 2010  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

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.

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