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Take
a look at the rack on the right. Isn't it a thing of beauty? Quite
simply, there are no stronger, better designed, better built server racks
in the world. Period.
We
know what you're thinking: why not just buy racks off the shelf like everyone
else? I mean, they may not be as good, but they would cost a lot less, and
they'd be good enough, right? Well, "good enough" isn't what
eSecureData.com is all about. Here are some of the reasons we spend five times
what an off-the-shelf rack costs to have ours custom built.
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DisasterThere are a lot of reasons to
use a dedicated server company. Security, uptime, bandwidth,
monitoring...all of these are good reasons, but another reason that often
gets overlooked is also critical:
surviving disasters. If an earthquake, tsunami, tornado,
hurricane, flood or even a terrorist attack occurs, you're counting on your
server company to have done everything reasonably possible to make sure that
your online business is unaffected. That's exactly why we spend the
extra money to have our racks custom made. Our racks are designed and
built to survive disasters of all kinds. No matter what gets thrown at
them, if any racks in the world could survive it, these ones will.
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You may never have given this a
thought, but most server racks are made of thin aluminum sheeting.
We've even seen several racks that are made of tin. Either way, if
disaster ever strikes, they'll crumble like week-old cake. We're just
not willing to accept that for our servers. We use welded 2" square
steel tubing for our posts, and super-strong heavy-gauge lateral rails.
You could drop a truck on these racks without denting them.
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Airflow
Heat is one of the most common reasons why server hardware fails, and
hardware failure means downtime and lost revenue. Most racks enclose
all the hot air they generate inside their external shells, with a handful
of little fans at the top and bottom struggling to exhaust that hot air
through a few woefully inadequate vents. I guess you just have to hope
that your server isn't in the middle. Our racks are open designs, with
clear airflow on every server, all the way from top to bottom. We use
heavy-gauge steel mesh to protect the servers, but we allow the air to flow
freely. Beyond this, each deployed rack has 750 fans in it. You
read that right. Seven hundred and fifty fans. This, in
conjunction with the world-class industrial air conditioning systems used in
eSecureData data centers, ensures that your server gets the cooling it needs
to run your websites and web applications reliably and without interruption.
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Anchoring
Every single eSecureData.com rack gets
bolted directly into the concrete it sits on. Not into the thin cement
layer on top, but into the solid concrete below. No matter what hits
them, these racks aren't going anywhere.
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We're
computer people and we respect technology. Still, no matter how
advanced we get, there's absolutely nothing that beats a good man who takes
pride in his work. That's exactly what we have in Juan Moore, the
craftsman who builds our racks by hand. That's right, by hand.
He worked with our engineers, looking at every aspect of the deployment from
our design goals to the physical space we had available, and came up with a
prototype design that met our needs perfectly. Then, when prototyping
was done and everyone was finally satisfied, he built every single one of
our racks from the ground up. His personal pride stands behind every
weld. There is just no better way in the world to do it right.
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