We’ve admittedly done a pretty poor job of updating this blog over the course of the past 12 months – however a lot really has been happening as anyone that’s been watching the rest of what we’ve been doing knows. With what the economy has been doing lately, I thought now was a great time to in the least boastful way possible show how this actually how we’ve endured pretty fantastically here.
- We’ve upgraded routers and distribution switching in all of our facilities to massive and redundant Foundry network cores.
- We’ve added XO Communications to our upstream in addition to Mzima Networks for additional routes
- We’ve turned up BGP on our new routers for seamless fail-over should one carrier have issues
- We have a shiny new Chicago data center that’s unbelievably nicer than the old one in every way
- Our network has grown to now exceed 1000 physical servers
- Our team has grown to now include approximately 30 full time staff for even stronger 24/7 support coverage
- We’ve expanded data center operations to include Atlanta, Georgia
- We’ve created public Wiki’s full of useful information for self-managed and managed hosting customers
- We’ve assembled a completely new hosting platform that’s even better than before at hosting Java and Ruby applications
- We’ve accomplished all of these thing without needing to raise costs or pass down rising energy costs – passing the economies of scale from our growth down to you
Another cool metric resulting from this – is to check the Ubiquity/Nobis ASN (AS15003) on major tools like CIDR Report, where our network rank is climbed drastically out of over 25,000 ASN networks to be occupy space in the top 2,500 following the addition of another /18 and the addition of XO and downstream peers. As we move into 2009, we’ll try to do a better job keeping you updated on all of the exciting improvements going on behind the scenes.