LA Datacenter information
Datacenter
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Scionhost leases floor space inside of the One Wilshire Building. One Wilshire is a 30-story 656,300 SF multi-tenant carrier neutral telecom facility located in the downtown Los Angeles business district.
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Servers in the LA datacenter are housed in our own private cage for extra security, dedicated servers are housed in locked cabinets.
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One Wilshire maintains over 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel to increase emergency power to 48 hours, The normal source of power is the Los Angeles DWP.
Monitoring
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24 hour attended lobby with security staff with integrated CCTV and card access systems, perimeter and sensitive areas monitored 24/7 from a security station located in the entrance.
Hardware
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Our servers use 2U Intel Dual CORE Woodcrest Xeon Processors, 4MB cache, 4.0GB ECC RAM, 3 x 320GB SATA II (3Gb/s) Hard Drives with Hardware Raid 5 for hard drive redundancy, Hardened Secure Kernel and Redundant Power Supply Units.
Equipment
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Our cage is cooled by Liebert AC units to maintain a constant temperature of 67 degrees.
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Each cabinet is powered by dual 20 Amp power circuits each on a different UPS for fully redundant power.
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All CAT5 is prewired in to patch panels for efficient cable management.
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Cables are properly managed to ensure good air flow and cooling.
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We use a combination of Cisco and Foundry switches all connected via gigE to the core switch.
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Servers are also connected to APC reboot switches, as well as being behind a Cisco PIX firewall.
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All servers are backed by N+1 redundants UPS systems in additional to being backed by the Diesel generator.