New PEER 1 Hosting Toronto Data Center

Put your servers in good hands with Canada's leader in Colocation services. Managed Hosting and ServerBeach Dedicated Servers also now available in our Toronto Data Center.

For the first time, this new data center houses all three of our hosting services (managed, dedicated and colocation) in one consolidated location to provide greater choice and flexibility for our Canadian customers. Geographical location is an important factor when choosing where to store information. Our new 41,000 square-foot data center gives us several geographic advantages including a convenient disaster recovery option for other data centers, risk mitigation and enhanced ability to meet US compliance standards.

Back in May of 2009, PEER 1 Hosting set out to build our newest and largest facility using the most modern techniques and technologies available to meet our customers' growing data center demands.

Watch the following video which captures this construction of the Toronto data center over the last year.



With an investment of $40 million over three to four years, we broke ground in May of 2009 in Scarborough, Ontario on the first Performance Optimized Data Center (POD). Building out the PODs individually has allowed us to expand more easily than ever before, providing our new and current customers to ample room as their businesses expand. Picking a space just outside of Toronto's downtown core enabled us to be more cost-effective, limit our carbon footprint and gave us space to add three additional PODs over the next two years.

The first phase or the first POD of the data center was opened in March 2010. Customers had the opportunity to begin purchasing space as of February 1st and started to move in their equipment in March. This POD is made up of 7,500 square feet of data center space and an additional 8,000 square feet of office space, along with inventory, network and storage areas to support the data center. Each individual POD has the capacity for approximately 270 cabinets, equivalent to roughly 7,500 servers with the flexibility to alter the mix based on customer demand.

WHIR TV's Coverage of the Building of our Toronto Data Center

Green methods were employed wherever possible in constructing the data center.

All trees torn down during development were relocated to other areas, rather than discarded. A local well was used for primary water supply to reduce overall environmental impact and provide redundancy to the critical cooling infrastructure. With this, outside air can be used during cooler months to cool water, which in turn will cool the air inside the data center and lower energy costs. Also, a more efficient roof reflects UV and absorbs heat to minimize costs. With a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of between 1.3 and 1.4, this state-of-the-art data center uses the most efficient products and technologies on the market to deliver customers increased power densities, robust security and ensure high reliability.