Smart Design Standards

Each of our data centers is sophistically architected with five design standards to provide the ideal infrastructure, networking and cooling environment.

Uniform Rack Design

Hosting.com equips its facilities with industry standard 19 inch wide by 42U high, four post, fully enclosed cabinets. Our cabinets are designed to accept all equipment complying with the current EIA-310-D standard and support a wide array of power and circuit types to best meet the needs of our client environment.

Blanking Panels

Unoccupied equipment slots in a cabinet allow migration of cold supply air to the back of the cabinet without absorbing heat from the equipment in its path, referred to as “short cycling.”  Short cycling results in lost cooling efficiency and is a common cause for overheating equipment, especially in dense installations.

Hosting.com encourages and provides for the use of blanking panels that effectively close off these open slots and direct cooling air thru the equipment where it can absorb and remove heat as intended.

Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle Layout

Our facilities are laid out to separate cold supply air and hot return air with minimal interaction between air masses, this results in our ability to support the increasingly higher power and cooling densities of a leading edge data center and is a key design factor in operating an efficient facility.

Cold Air Containment

To further improve running efficiency and optimize support for ultra-high cooling densities, Hosting.com has successfully tested and implemented a cold isle containment method (within specific locations) that further increases efficiency by closing off the normally unobstructed ends of cold aisles with transparent “air curtains.”  These curtains prevent the mass bleed off of cold supply air before it can absorb equipment generated heat and channel it back to our cooling infrastructure.

Green Design Philosophy

Datacenter power consumption continues to grow exponentially with current estimates indicating the hosting industry places about 12gW of demand on the national power grid. This rate of growth has compelled both the EPA and the hosting industry itself to study and identify ways to minimize energy consumption and reduce its impact on the environment.

Hosting.com has been and continues to be an active participant in the EPA’s effort to establish a datacenter efficiency ratings system known as Energy Star. Our design philosophy is centered around reducing our facilities carbon footprint thru smart design features such as outside air economizing, low to zero loss UPS technology, solar gain evading roof surfaces and variable frequency drives in our mechanical plants.