Fallen Earth has been guaranteed 100 percent uptime in key areas such as power, bandwidth and cooling, according to Hosted Solutions' Wednesday announcement, made at the first annual Triangle Game Conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The developers of massively multiplayer online game "Fallen Earth" (www.fallenearth.com) have chosen IT infrastructure provider Hosted Solutions (www.hostedsolutions.com) to colocate their network infrastructure equipment at Hosted Solutions' data centers.
Fallen Earth has been guaranteed 100 percent uptime in key areas such as power, bandwidth and cooling, according to Hosted Solutions' Wednesday announcement, made at the first annual Triangle Game Conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Still in beta testing, the developers said Fallen Earth will combine elements of a first-person shooter with a traditional role-playing game, featuring an apocalyptic storyline following the survivors of a lethal disease that destroyed most of mankind. In choosing Hosted Solutions, Fallen Earth's developers are trying to save their online world such a sorry fate.
"By colocating our infrastructure with Hosted Solutions, we know that we will be up and running, every second of every day possible," Fallen Earth chief executive officer Jim Hettinger said in a statement. "We will have players globally, for whom any downtime is unacceptable, and so we wanted a hosting provider who could offer us the maximum possible reliability."
Hosted Solutions provides high-availability solutions for a number of game companies, ensuring consistent uptime through redundancy, guaranteed failover and the use of industry-leading hardware and software.
"Reliability is key, not only for firms like Fallen Earth, but for businesses of all kinds," Hosted Solutions founder and CEO Rich Lee said in a statement. "Our customers cannot afford to fail. With five enterprise-class data centers located throughout the East Coast, we offer a superior level of quality and service that provides our customers with peace of mind and the ability to focus on their core business."
Earlier this month, Hosted Solutions completed more than $6 million in enhancements to its Boston data center in response to regional demand. The upgrades included roughly two mega watts of increased UPS power capacity and substantial cooling, as well as infrastructure, back-up power, security and video surveillance improvements.
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