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What is a Data Center?

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It is an infrastructure service (Physics) IT at your service, created to preserve and / or manage your information, in a secure way, using high technology.
It is aimed primarily at companies that want to reduce their operating costs and put their informatics equipment and / or information physically in a place designed and built under international safety standards and infrastructure, both physical and logistics.
Besides being a safe place, also it has high-speed Internet connections and conditions of temperature, humidity and regulated power supply. A place specially designed to host computer equipment and ensure its continued operation.

What is Colocation?
A Colocation is the way of locating (physically) one or more servers and / or specialized equipment inside a cabinet and redundant, high-speed platform.
The Colocation is an easy and cost / effective to install a powerful administrative infrastructure without losing control of their hardware and resources.

What is a Virtual Server?
A Virtual Server consist in simulate fully or partially hardware or software systems on a computer that is shared by several rooms simultaneously, where the user gets a transparent several service of "Servers (Virtual)," when, at the bottom, different applications are running on a single physical platform.
The result is that applications and users see the resources they need as if they were dedicated exclusively to them, but in reality this is commonly shared by other customers.

What is a Dedicated Server?
A dedicated server consists in have physically one or more equipment (servers) inside a specific Cabinet Systems and in that way operate systems and applications without being shared by other customers (individuals or companies). Unlike virtual servers, here Customer controls in an exclusively way all the resources of each of the equipment that have DEDICATED to the operations and / or operational solutions of the company.

What is dedicated Hosting?
The dedicated hosting service is the best solution for companies who decide to place their applications in a datacenter with international quality standards, not only for having the best technological infrastructure but for the highly trained team of professionals who, through adequate policies and processes, ensures the management of a high availability service, performance and security.

What is Housing?
Housing service is especially designed for customers to maintain control over their equipment and applications with the highest safety and available physical spaces in Cabinets and Racks like closed exclusive sites (cages or suites).

What is false floor?
It is an elevated technical floor that allows a free ground clearance of 29 cm. It supports up to 1,500 Kg / m2 load with support columns connected to ground and offering antistatic properties.

Datacenter has a proper environment?
Yes. Usually a Datacenter has an air conditioning system with degree of redundancy of n + 1. The temperature tolerances are 22 ° C ± 2 ° C (adjustable).

What is a domain?
An Internet domain is the name that you choose for your website and which you are known in the Internet environment. This is the direction that normally precedes entry for www to conform your website (example: www.mydomain.com) and is used by your visitors to receive email, example: (usuario@mydomain.com).

What is a DNS?
DNS (Domain Name Server) names server. It is the equipment that resolves domain names.

What is DNS spread?
The spread is the time when the information of your DNS is spreading on the Internet.

How long it takes to spread?
The spread time is around 24-48 hours.

Why choose a Datacenter for my business?
If the answer to some of the following questions is "yes", then you should consider adopting this method:

- My server requires connecting to the Internet permanently.
- My server is accessed remotely via the Internet.
- My server requires a lot of bandwidth.
- My server requires high speed connectivity.
- My server must be operating 24 x 7.
- My server runs critical processes for the operation.
- My server is physically located in an unsafe place.
- My server needs to save a backup outside of the Company.
- I have to invest in the condition of the room servers.
- The cost of my computer center is always increasing.
- The specialized personnel are limited.

What are the risks of not being in a datacenter?
Having the server in your company, running critical processes and being accessed remotely via Internet exposes it to risks and vulnerabilities such as:
- Internet Fails
- Lack of redundancy in equipment and connectivity
- Power outages
- Surges and voltages
- Lack of cleaning, temperature and humidity ideal
- Stole
- Internal Sabotage
- Accidents
- Contingencies
- Fire
- Leaks, Flooding
- Remote “Hacking"
- Lack of permanent monitoring (24 x 7) of the equipment and the application
- Lack of external backup.