[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
Hi Paul, On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:03:00PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > What is a data centre. It's a place where internet carriers meet so that people can put their hardware all in one place without having to have a lot of costly individual links to get to the backbone. A "carrier-neutral" datacentre is usually owned by a third party who then arranges for several carriers to have space there, and hosting customers can choose between them. Other datacentres may be owned by one carrier and so only have Internet transit/peering available from that one carrier. Still other datacentres are entirely private being only for the use of one company. Datacentres usually have more stringent physical security than a typical office building, and proper environmental controls designed for the purpose of hosting a lot of computers. Typically customers may rent lockable racks in a shared room (with lots of other racks), or a caged off area for their exclusive use, or even entire suites. Datacentres make economic sense because implementing all of the access to internet backbones, high security and environmental control many times over for each individual customer would be far more expensive than doing it once in one place and sharing the cost across the many customers. Wikipedia has more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
-- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html