July 27, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Hosting.com (hosting.com) announced on Wednesday that the widespread power outage affecting the San Francisco, California area Tuesday afternoon did not impact the Hosting.com San Francisco data center located at 630 Third Street.
Hosting.com’s facility was fully operational and online throughout the duration of this event as generators kicked on at 1:40 p.m., as soon as the power outage occurred. Early estimates by PG&E placed 30,000 to 50,000 customers without power during the outage, many of which were businesses whose operations are completely dependent on power, including PG&E itself as well as area data center providers in the downtown San Francisco area.
“While it’s unfortunate that the downtown San Francisco area was hit with a massive power outage, we couldn’t be more pleased with the way our facility withstood the test,” says Darren King, Hosting.com president and CEO. “As a result of our redundant infrastructure and thorough testing and maintenance of that infrastructure by seasoned data center experts, we are happy to report that not a single Hosting.com San Francisco colo client within the data center was affected.”
Hosting.com management says it will fully analyze and evaluate this event and all published reports over the next few days to further prepare for and take any additional steps it needs to ensure that all clients are protected by future power outages. Management believes the recent instability of the power grid in San Francisco will have no impact on the construction plans currently underway that will double the size of its San Francisco facility, providing ts clients with colocation suites up to 3,000 square feet to house its infrastructure.
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