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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed hosting provider HostDime (www.hostdime.com) announced on Tuesday it has completed construction of a new 5,000 square-foot data and network operations center in Brazil.
The new data center significantly expands the hosting capacity of the company's local division, HostDime Brazil.
When HostDime opened its international division in Brazil nearly three years ago, there were no plans to open a data center facility locally. However, the rapidly increasing demand for locally-hosted services in Brazil has made such a facility necessar.
The new data center will give HostDime Brazil a considerable advantage in both reduced costs and greater accessibility.
The company's current customer base of over 5,000 just from the Brazil division also has been generating a demand for local servers, and with more than 200 percent growth per year in the division, this facility expansion will lead to further growth.
Located in the equivalent of Class-A office space, the new data center is down the hall from HostDime Brazil's business office in the same complex.
The data center suite is fully supported by an uninterruptable power supply and generator to reduce service disruption in the event of a power-grid failure.
HostDime originally selected João Pessoa, Paraíba to host its operations because of the city's record as natural-disaster-free, with no hurricanes or earthquakes in its history.
It is also the easternmost city in the Americas and is often cited as the second greenest city in the world, says HostDime.
The data center is also one of few facilities in the northern part of Brazil helping businesses to host outside the saturated southern part of Brazil like São Paulo.
"Brazil has a population of over 200 million and is one of the fastest growing online countries in the world," says Emmanuel Vivar, HostDime CEO. "While 80 percent of Brazilian websites are hosted out of the country due to lower costs, the completion of this facility is key to converting that 80 percent into a major source of growth for our Brazilian division. By hosting sites locally, latency can be reduced to under 75ms, compared to the more than 150ms latency for websites hosted on US-based servers."
This marks the second major build for HostDime this year. In March, the company opened a 1,500 square foot dedicated customer support facility just 10 miles east of its international headquarters in downtown Orlando.
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Comment by Anonymous on Friday, September 04, 2009
We use HostDime here in Joao Pessoa to host our information portal www.paraibaparadise.com
The site has news and information about everything Joao Pessoa related, it also has the biggest and most up to date "what's on" page in the North-East of Brazil.