Northeastern Blackout
On Thursday, August 14, 2003 the largest blackout in North American history took place, with a massive power outage throughout parts of northeastern United States and eastern Canada. The Northeast Blackout affected an estimated 10 million people in the Canadian province of Ontario (about one-third of the population of Canada), and 40 million people in eight US states (about one-seventh of the population of the US). Outage-related financial losses were estimated at $6 billion USD. (source: Wikipedia)Bell Data Systems
Challenge
To Implement a hosting solution that meets their growing client requirements without having to incur significant capital investment at the outset.
Solution
Bell Data Systems selected a low-end, affordable dedicated server that met their basic needs. As their demands on the server grew, they upgraded to a more robust server, complete with a firewall managed by the PEER 1 network security team.
Benefits
Easy to scale hosting solution without incurring a large capital investment.
Lavalife
Challenge
Due to its rapid growth of thousands of new members each week, Lavalife needed to improve its business continuity configuration to support increased traffic and guarantee uptime for their 600,000 members.
Solution
Lavalife turned to PEER 1, an Internet infrastructure company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia with presence throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. PEER 1 provided Lavalife a secure backup co-location space and secondary services built to Lavalife's specific requirements.
Benefits
- Provided secure business continuity solution
- Enhanced communication network stability
- Provided timely service for expansion
- Lowered IT costs
SecretSanta.com
Challenge
Making the SecretSanta.com site stable and quickly accessible to users anywhere around the world without having to hire a full-time IT person.
Solution
SecretSanta.com selected an affordable PEER 1 dedicated server to host their site and database, as well as signed up for our Rapid Edge Content Delivery Network to deliver faster site performance to end users.
Benefits
Increased site traffic and positive user feedback without having to hire a full-time IT person.
The Squad
Challenge
Dramatically improve the bandwidth performance and stability for their client without changing their current hosting provider or investing in new servers.
Solution
The Squad implemented PEER 1's content delivery network (CDN), RAPID EDGE™, an international server network that pushes content closer to users.
Benefits
Faster downloads experienced by large overseas users with no capital cost and without leaving their existing hosting provider.
Why does my equipment have to be set up in a certain way?
At PEER 1, we maintain hot and cold aisles in all our datacenters. This allows us to control the cooling required through the facilities. When you are setting up your equipment, please review the direction that you are venting your server exhaust. Most cabinets are marked with ‘front’ and ‘rear’ stickers to indicate the proper direction.
