An image from the Dump Truck site, illustrating some of the tool's features
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Personal VPN provider Golden Frog (www.goldenfrog.com) will host its new “Dump Truck” online storage service out of the new Texas 1 data center facility of hosting provider Data Foundry (www.datafoundry.com), the companies said in an announcement issued this week.
More than just an ordinary colocation customer, Golden Frog shares some ownership with Data Foundry, and began as an effort to effectively employ some of the excess network resources operated by the group. The Dump Truck storage may have come from a similar effort to employ excess resources.
According to the release, Dump Truck is Golden Frog’s “professional-grade” online storage service, that lets users store documents, including photos and other files, using a web interface with a drag-and-drop interface. Along with the company’s previous service, the VyprVPN, the new tool contributes to Golden Frog’s growing portfolio of offerings around “secure, private Internet services.”
Golden Frog says its Dump Truck service is focused around providing the highest level of security and privacy around transferring and storing personal files. It offers unlimited upload and download speeds and file sizes.
Data Foundry’s Texas 1 facility is a 250,000 square foot, carier-neutral data center located near Austin, Texas, and launched this summer. The company is providing Golden Frog’s new service with high-density colocation and high-bandwidth Internet connectivity, including access to 17 network carriers.
“We chose Data Foundry’s resilient data center facility to house our cloud-based storage solution because it was designed with the utmost redundancy across power, networking, and water feeds,” says Philip Molter, CTO of Golden Frog, quoted in the press release. “We know we can scale quickly with easy access to a wide variety of carriers and ample room for the deployment of additional storage services and network hardware.”
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