We've recently moved all of our servers to a more local DataCenter in Orlando, FL. It's only about an hour away from us in Tampa, and my Mainstream design/hosting clients seem to like the idea of a "local" datacenter more than one in Texas, Atlanta or somewhere else.
The company is Marlin Web Hosting,
http://www.marlinwebhosting.com.
So, AAA_Ryan and I went to tour the facility on Tuesday. I must say, we were VERY impressed! All in all, the facility was 2 HUGE buildings ( 225,000 sq/ft total )of Class A office space ,Datacenter, Call center and logistics warehouse. There was even TV studios built into this thing. The NOC looked like the pictures I see of Central Command at MacDill AirForce base here in Tampa.
I met with Roy, the owner of the company who is an actual Billionaire, Shane P. (formerly the president of Candid Hosting) and Danny (formerly of Shaw Internet) who are running Marlins hosting operations. I also got to meet their IT manager and several of their Network engineers. They all seem to be top notch guys very proud of the facility (Bragging about their connection speeds and fingerprint access to rooms like James Bond. lol)
Here are some photos I took while there:
Rows and rows of racks (Looks a lot cleaner than any other DataCenter I have toured):
Some of our servers:
More of our servers:
I'm waiting for more pics from Ryans Camera. I'll post those when we have em online.
Thanks Shane and Danny! I appreciate the tour and the personal service!