| Sydney Datacenter - Sydney Australia. | |
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Have you ever
wondered what goes on The power behind the Nightwalker.  Fitting out our
holding area, Sydney Datacenter
 1U Linux Servers  1U Linux servers Stacked & wired to the switchers and core units. Our servers run dual dual/quad core Intel Xeon CPU's with 2-4 gigs of ram and raid protected SATA II drives. We exclusively use the Linux CentOS operating system since it provides a reliable and robust platform for web hosting environments. |
As you can see not everything is on a large scale.
Nightwalker has a 12" X 14" chain link cage that houses all of our
computer equipment. This is done to ensure the security of our
equipment, as the space is shared by many customers and a cage keeps
our equipment secure from the common area, and yes the whole area is
security secured by state of the art alarm systems and armed guards to
ensure everyone's equipment is safe secure Nightwalker has over a 150 pieces of equipment at this server center to run all the services that we provide. For our servers we use semi-common PC type components in a special case called a rack case. There is not much difference than what a lot of people use for home computers, the difference being the case and the number and power of the CPU's All of this equipment gets mounted into what we call a rack. This is a four post cabinet with no doors or side panels. It is completely open to accommodate air flow. In the pictures below left you can see how the equipment is mounted in the black cabinets and wired up to the core switch. Here are
a few stats for you to consider. Nightwalker uses over 200 amps of
power to run all the computers in the Sydney Data Center alone. Our
average
bandwidth is 25 mbs (17-T1's) a T1= 1.544Mbit/s and our daily peak
bandwidth is 45 mbs (30-T1's). We do over 100 million page views per
month with nearly 500 million total hits (including graphics) to our
customer websites. We send over 9 million legitimate emails over the
course of a month.
Nightwalker not only runs its own server center, but controls it's own nameservers unlike many other hosting companies. As a professional hosting center we also replicate this setup in five other locations world wide. We control our centers remotely, from two locations. in the Sydney area, with full remote mirrors in the USA, London, Singapore, Melbourne Australia.  1U Failover Linux Servers for redundancy |
| Dallas Datacenter - Dallas TX. | |
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The Dallas datacenter is a Tier IV datacenter facility located inside the well known INFOMART telecom hotel near downtown Dallas. Specializing in datacenter and hosting facilities, INFOMART is home to multiple datacenters including MCI, Level 3, Equinix, Verio, Switch & Data, Verizon, DataSides, and more. The building sits atop three redundant electrical grids from TXU delivering diverse power to each quadrant of the building. HVAC needs are supplied via five one hundred ton onsite water chillers to deliver N+1 cooling requirements. Home to over twelve switch sites and thirty-five different carriers, INFOMART houses technology and telecom related businesses in a complex communications ecosystem. Datacenter details, with room for over 25,000 dedicated servers, the private N+1 datacenter facility incorporates the following infrastructure:
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| Docklands Data Center - London UK. | |
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London Docklands Data Center is one of the very few carrier-neutral premier class data centers in England. The Data Center delivers fast, reliable servers predominantly in the London Docklands. The datacenter features 24/7 security with visual ID checks before entering the building and entrance to the data floor limited by PAC/swipe tag access. Docklands offers the best quality bandwidth from their transit providers. Bandwidth is routed through powerful Cisco equipment with a mixture of Tier 1 transit straight to the network equipment. The providers include Level 3, Tiscali and NewNet and the upstream providers peer in most major UK Internet Exchanges including LINX, Xchangepoint, and Lipex to ensure a reliable, fast network.
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| AtlantaNAP - Atlanta GA. | |
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The
AtlantaNAP is Atlanta's large scale datacenter and disaster recovery
center. Built by the owners of Global Net Access after 12 years in the
Internet business, the AtlantaNAP boasts the features of a carrier
class facility.
Atlanta NAP operates a metro Ethernet ring based on Extreme Networks 10 Gig technology. It has Sonet-like EAPS implementation for sub 50 ms re-route times, utilizing Ethernet for efficient and affordable equipment connectivity. They have collocation in Telx at 56 Marietta and Switch and Data at 56 Marietta and offering 100MB and Gigabit Ethernet metro cross connects to any one of the more than 100 carriers located in the Telx building. The Atlanta NAP is monitored at over 450 points by a state-of-the art digital building management system. Staff can log in securely from any location and check on all systems. The data center uses a state-of-the-art dual interlock dry pipe fire suppression system. High-tech smoke detectors signal the pipes to switch from compressed air to water. |
| NAC Data Center - Parsippany NJ. | |
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Network Access Corporation's (NAC) data center,
in Parsippany, N.J. NAC maintains one of the largest and most fault
tolerant networks in the United States.
NAC is connected directly to most of the major networks including Sprint, UUNET, Cable & Wireless, PSI, Global Center, Savvis, AOL, Exodus, and many others. The network infrastructure is guarded, monitored, and staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. NAC has made significant investments in equipment from major vendors such as Cisco, Livingston, and 3Com/USR.
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| Qala Data Center - Singapore | |
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Qala data center is a 20,000 sq ft state of the art Internet Data Center in Singapore. Qala Data Center's network has been designed to accommodate clients demanding the highest quality network performance. There is a central focus on redundancy allowing its network to rapidly self-heal failures without interruptions to connectivity. Qala data center has multiple network connections to different Internet backbones, allowing data to be distributed though many sources - meaning that the Qala network is not dependent upon any single Internet backbone.
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| Network Operations Center Inc. - Scranton PA. | |
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Network Operations Center Inc. Data Center facility includes more than 20,000 square feet of raised floor data center space, 3,000 square feet of telco-style space, plus a high tech Network Operations Center. The network is connected via Gigabit Ethernet handoff's with 1000mbps on redundant dual-path DWDM fiber-optic transport connections to Commonwealth Telephone™, Verizon™ and PPL Telecom™ and multiple other providers. The Network Operations Center utilizes ONLY top name brand hardware. The network is centered on a Cisco GSR12000 Border Routers, and Cisco 7206VXR Core Routers. Hardware utilized in the facility is comprised of name brands, including the following: Intel, Asus, Abit, AMD, 3Com, Hewlett Packard, Adaptec, Cisco, Tekram, Kingston, Micron, Crucial, IBM, Maxtor, Western-Digital, Seagate, Quantum, Fujitsu, Realtec, Belkin, and Lucent. The Network Operations Center uses industry-standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and provides round-the-clock monitoring of all hardware, including routers, switches, UPS systems, and servers. |