Data Centers
Always aiming at the ultimate goal – total satisfaction of our clients, we at Massy Hosting maintain servers in the USA (CenturyLink), Europe (Neterra), and Hong Kong (CenturyLink), thus ensuring versatility and numerous opportunities for your business or home web solutions.
Three Data Center Locations
Boston, USA
Located in Boston, MA, this data center is the best location for sites targeting the North and South American regions. The direct access to the CenturyLink backbone network this datacenter has provides extremely fast connections to all major hubs in the USA and Canada.
Hong Kong, Asia
The CenturyLink data center in Hong Kong is the perfect location to serve all websites with visitors from the Asia-Pacific region. This location is the first choice of most Hong Kong, Chinese, Australian and Japanese customers.
Sofia, Europe
Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, one of the network hubs on the European continent, this data center has a direct connection to most major IX hubs, providing the perfect location for sites targeting the European, African, and Middle Eastern regions
Boston Data Center | USA
We are proud to offer our clients access through one of the world’s largest IP backbones with a single autonomous system (AS) number: by minimizing ‘hops’ between parts of the Internet, faster, more reliable performance is delivered, and user data is given a more direct route to its destination.
CenturyLink Technology Solutions is an operator that combines a carrier-class TIER1 international IP network, independently tested as offering best-in-class reliability and performance, and a content distribution network, bypassing Internet congestion to deliver sought-after content at high speeds.
IP Network
CenturyLink’s IP network provides low-latency, secure, reliable and high availability connectivity between geographically spread out locations. Cross connects to their Global Tier 1 backbone and a broad range of carriers, including global and regional providers, ensure information reaches its destination, wherever that may be.
Production Servers
Our servers are specially designed for our hosting environment. Built with the most reliable server components, they are equipped with 18 Core Xeon Gold processors, up to 256 GB RAM, RAID 6 disk arrays, and SSDs for the most I/O-intensive operations. The hot-swap HDDs, power supply units, and cooling fans allow repairs or replacement of these components while the machine stays online. This design brings the hardware reliability to the highest level.
Spare Servers
We keep a spare/standby server in each server rack. If a production server fails, it will be immediately replaced by a spare server, and the latest backup will be restored. This way Massy Hosting can offer you a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Facilities
- Raised floors
- Climate control systems with separate cooling zones
- Seismically braced racks
Protection & Security
CenturyLink data centers are further protected by some of the most powerful physical security systems available, including:
- Advanced smoke detection and fire suppression systems
- 24/7 secured access with motion sensors, video surveillance and security breach alarms
Reliability & Performance
The highest levels of reliability and performance are delivered with:
- A redundant network of multiple fiber trunks from multiple sources
- Redundant power on the premises
- Multiple backup generators
CenturyLink | Hong Kong
CenturyLink’s Hong Kong data center is a carrier-neutral premier Tier III certified facility. The data center supports ultra-low latency collocation and proximity hosting. The datacenter has dark fiber metro ring connections within Hong Kong, rapid cross connects with Tokyo and Singapore, and a node room with points of presence from the largest network carriers in the region.
Building
- Total building interior : 200 000 sq. ft. gross
- This data center has received the Uptime Institute Management and Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval.
Reliability & Performance
- A redundant network of multiple fiber trunks from multiple sources
- Redundant power on the premises
- Generator configuration = N + 1
Network Reliability
- Direct access to Hybrid IT services from multiple providers
- Unique ‘Pod’ architecture
- Dark fiber metro ring connections within Hong Kong
Spare Servers
We keep a spare/standby server in each server rack. If a production server fails, it will be immediately replaced by a spare server, and the latest backup will be restored. This way Massy Hosting can offer you a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Electrical Summary
- China Lighting and Power (CLP) provides power feeds.
- Minimum two fuel replenishing companies
Industrial-grade Air Conditioners
- CenturyLink manages humidity and temperature to strict ASHRAE standard
- Cooling system configuration = N + 1
- Fire Detection and Suppression – VESDA early warning detection.
- Double Interlock system based on conventional photoelectric smoke detectors.
Production Servers
Our servers are specially designed for our hosting environment. Built with the most reliable server components, they are equipped with 18 Core Xeon Gold processors, up to 256 GB RAM, RAID 6 disk arrays, and SSDs. The server chassis we chose supports hot-swap of storage devices, power supply units, and cooling fans which allows repairs/replacement of these components while the machine stays online. This design brings the hardware reliability to the highest level.
Neterra Sofia Data Center | Europe
The Neterra Sofia Data Center is a carrier-neutral facility, the newest in the region, and the only one designed for a data center from the planning stage in the last 15 years. Neterra holds a Declaration of Conformity with EC Directives and Safety Standards. The Neterra Sofia Data Center is a part of the largest Internet exchange points in Europe.
Connectivity
Neterra is a part of the largest Internet exchange points in Europe: DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Equinix in Paris, LINX in London, AMS-IX in Amsterdam, and Ronix and Interlan in Bucharest.
The company has direct connectivity to all neighboring countries and reaches Georgia and Armenia via the Black Sea, and Asia and Africa via the submarine cable systems MedNautilus and SEE-ME-WE 3.
Business continuity
The Sofia Data Center is served by two independent sources of electric power supply, each of them able to cover 100% of the load. The facility has 1+1 electric generators, switching automatically, and two fully independent А UPS (N+1) and В UPS (N+1) systems.
Environmental Care
Neterra has built-in Free Cooling Air Conditioning System in the data center which uses less power and provides lower ambient air temperature.
The system introduces greater quantities of fresh air which also improves the air quality. This enables the system to lower the energy usage with 30% in the summer and up to 50% in the cooler fall and winter months.
Production Servers
Our servers are specially designed for our hosting environment. Built with the most reliable server components, they are equipped with 18 Core Xeon Gold processors, up to 256 GB RAM, RAID 6 disk arrays, and SSDs for the most I/O-intensive operations.
The hot-swap HDDs, power supply units, and cooling fans allow repairs/replacement of these components while the machine stays online. This design brings the hardware reliability to the highest level.
Specifications
The Sofia Data Center is a two-floor colocation facility with a total area of 660 m2 and very well managed capacity. The floor height is 3.50 m. plus 50 cm. raised floor and floor point loading up to 3 kN.
The colocation center has two Meet-Me-Rooms, two independent incoming cable lines for external connections to each MMR, and two independent routes for communication cables coming from MMR to the client equipment.
Disaster Protection
The fire alarm system in Sofia Data Center is type VESDA® (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus). It offers the earliest possible warning of potential fire.
The fire extinguishing system uses FM200® gas mixture, which in case of a problem isolates the fire with no impact on the surrounding area. The building is seismically protected, designed to withstand earthquakes of a magnitude of 9 in MSK scale.
Technical Maintenance
The Sofia Data Center has 24-hour security, computer access control, video surveillance, and individual locks for each drawer.
All systems at SDC – power supply, electric switchboard, UPS, and air-conditioning are under constant monitoring.
Spare Servers
We keep a spare/standby server in each server rack. If a production server fails, it will be immediately replaced by a spare server, and the latest backup will be restored. This way Massy Hosting can offer you a 99.9% uptime guarantee.