There are plenty of considerations when it comes to choosing a good data centre. We’ve gone through some of the most pivotal below.
Redundancy: Perhaps the greatest aspect of a data center is to keep your business strong and running. What are your plans for redundancy? Are you worried if your servers are down for an hour, a day, or worse even a week? If you’re concerned, getting rid of single points of failure is the key. You need an uninterruptible supply of power, fed by a generator, for power to use for a short time in case your power source fails. You need to have battery backups on all your devices from routers to switches just in case of redundancy.
Reliability: Let’s keep speaking about the benefits of uptime while thinking about the best data center provider. Data centers are divided into Tiers I, II, III, and IV. The higher the Tier level is, the higher the availability is expected. Let’s see the breakdown of downtime, over one year, 525,600 minutes.
Tier I (99.671% availability) estimated downtime: 1729.224 minutes or 28.817 hours
Tier II (99.741% availability) estimated downtime: 1361.304 minutes or 22.688 hours
Tier III (99.982% availability) estimated downtime: 94.608 minutes
Tier IV (99.995% availability) estimated downtime: 26.28 minutes
As seen, there’s a disparity between Tier one and two and Tier 3 and 4. Take for example a data center that is at least Tier 3 certified.
Connectivity: Some data centers are usually limited to only a few network carriers. Look for a carrier-neutral facility that offers your enterprise access to carriers worldwide.
The infrastructure of the Network: Does the data center provide a looking glass tool to view backbone routing as well as the behavior of the network efficiency. Find out more about Beeks analytics.
Location: Around 53% of mobile visits are usually abandoned if pages take more than 3 seconds to load. Time is precious for your enterprise. You want your server to be located close to the market you target. The closer the visitor of the website is to the web server, the lesser the number of networks the data goes through. Pick a data center that besides having many locations gives you a chance to try the speed of every location.
You can observe by yourself the incredible speed of a by choosing one of our data center locations, picking a file size, and downloading a file to test.
Steps to Choose a Data Center
Visit the Data Center: Most topics covered in this article can be checked by you when touring the data center. If you can’t take a tour in person, check and see if you can find a video walk-through of the facility offered by the provider.
In-house Remote Hands: Inquire from the data center if they got 24/7 engineers situated on-site in the event there’s something agent. Also ask if the remote hands are a third party or not, since this may be a lot more costly to you. HostDime has remote hands in-house and they’re available at any time, whether it’s during holidays or natural disasters. With this, you don’t have to ask your I.T experts to visit the data center and carry out tasks we can handle with ease.
Safety of the Faculty: Your data is key for your enterprise. Whenever you outsource this, you need to make sure to keep it with a provider who’s taken the necessary security measures and certifications. This is another reason why you need to visit the data center. If you can get to your server without the need for a passcode or escort, who else is likely to get to your server with ease? Check if video cameras are monitoring the cabinets.
Safety of the Servers: Virtual security is essential just like physical security. We take care of the security of each server, pre, and post-production, to offer peace of mind. All our dedicated security serves are put to a 10 point security check before they can be deployed.
