October 25, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com) announced on Monday that it has acquired a 55,000 square foot data center facility in Grapevine, Texas. Rackspace said the newly acquired facility, its fifth, doubles the company’s data center capacity and provides additional geographic redundancy. The company said it now has more than 20,000 new servers to accomodate the company’s rapid growth.
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The Grapevine, Texas facility features twenty-four hours, seven days a week N+1 redundant environmental controls, in addition to twenty-four monitoring via CCTV and additional physical security with card and biometric readers. The facility also has a UPS backup power system and diesel generators that allow for a combined capacity of 12 megawatts.
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Critical redundancy is provided by multiple major bandwidth providers and a number of gigabit ethernet circuits. The Grapevine location also boasts three carrier entry points for additional levels of redundancy and reliability.
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“Our rapid company growth and customer acquisition rate created a need for additional space less than two years after the deployment of our last facility,” says Paul Froutan, vice president of engineering at Rackspace Managed Hosting. “Our new facility is an excellent addition to our hosting infrastructure that will support our company’s continued growth. The Dallas area offers great resources, infrastructure and talent to our newest data center.”
