The Web Hosting Blog of Host Color

Host Color has now busy days in Europe. We have moved our European servers and equipment to a new data centers in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Sofia Bulgaria. In Amsterdam we moved from one Grafix data center to GrafiX backbone AS16131. In Sofia we have deployed our servers and new Blade IT Hosting technology in Interoute data center.

If you want to learn more about new Host Color’s Blade IT Hosting technology check the article “Host Color Is Going Green With Supermicro Blade Servers“. We have in the stage of OS instalation and deployment of our new generation Blade IT Hosting solution. But this is another story. Let me know tell you a few things about data centers.

Host Color in Amsterdam

Our main European hosting center is in GrafiX data center. It is a backbone facility with great latency and uptime, located in Alphen a/d Rijn. We use cold-corridor system with brand new racks, and 4 x 165 KVA cooling power in the main room. Through GrafiX we are connected to the following networks.

• 1000 Mbit AMS-IX peering
• 1000 Mbit Teleglobe transit
• 1000 Mbit Interoute transit
• 1000 Mbit MFN/Abovenet transit
• 100 Mbit Versatel peering
• 100 Mbit NL-IX peering
• 100 Mbit FreeBIX peering
• 100 Mbit Caveo private peering

The network Host Color uses is built upon high quality Juniper routing equipment and Extreme core switching.  We have our racks deployed within the GrafiX network.

Host Color in Sofia

You can see Stoyan and Bozhidar working on a rack in our new data center, owned by Interoute. A map of Interoute network and partners can be seen below. We are in a final stage of deploying Blade IT Hosting technology in Sofia data center.