So how does the new Brownrice data center measure up to the rest of the data center industry?  First some background and then the numbers!

The Metric: PUE

The data center industry uses a fairly simple metric called Power Usage Effectiveness, or “PUE.”   While there is legitimate debate about whether PUE is the best way to measure power efficiency it does seem to get right to the core of the matter:  How much extra power do you consume to cool your servers and keep the lights on?

Continue reading The Brownrice data center energy efficiency →

When you host Ski Area web cameras like we do, bandwidth goes big along with the storms. Here’s what one of our web cam streaming server’s bandwidth looks like over the last week.  And yes, its been snowing for exactly the last three days!  I’d wager we could write an algorithm that would determine ski area snow fall amounts by the amount of bandwidth that their web camera’s are using…

We’ve been experiencing issues with one of our live streaming and web cam streaming servers over the last 24 hours.  We’ve got it close to permanently fixed but may have to reboot the server once more.

Our existing server space is close to capacity so we’re building a bigger and more awesome-r one!

The new Brownrice data center will be larger, greener, and more secure than our existing server space and will utilize a smart, fresh air cooling system with air conditioning and generator backup, multiple layers of physical security, and will improve on our already robust physical network redundancy.

It will also look *super* cool.

So if you’ve been looking for a place to co-locate your servers or server racks, look no further than Brownrice. And feel free to come by anytime and we’ll give you a tour.

I LOVE when ski areas put our cameras in far away and cool places.  Red River Ski Area installed this one and its called “The Summit Cam.”  Check it out: