If most of you are unaware of our recent power and network upgrades, that’s a good thing! It means all of our extensive planning and testing resulted in no disruption of service to our customers.
We recently added a third back-up generator, and on Saturday, May 9, we doubled the Portland General Electric power coming into our data center to 1500kVA. The process took seven hours, five electricians and a quarter mile of 1-inch diameter wire. Our generators took the load for the entire time it took to complete the upgrade. They have since been re-fueled with 594 gallons of diesel.
We’re also making network improvements, including increasing our upstream capacity by 6X to 3 Gbps.
You can see all of our “current” data center specs here.