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ServerStack Maintains 100% Uptime During Hurricane Sandy


The day after Hurricane Sandy six weeks ago, all ServerStack employees found themselves without power, heat, hot water, or access to gas.
In the days after Hurricane Sandy six weeks ago, all ServerStack servers and sites continued to maintain the perfect uptime record that they have held for nearly a decade.
On Monday, December 4th, Netcraft ranked ServerStack 7th in its list of November’s Most Reliable Hosting Sites. The list compared hosting sites from across …

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ServerStack’s “White Glove” Managed Hosting Experience


Yes, there are a lot of options in the crowded managed hosting space. However, if you are considering a managed hosting provider, there are few important questions that you will need to answer:
1) Are they reliable and stable?
2) What is the level of support that I will be receiving?
3) Will my site be able to scale effectively while experiencing maximum performance?
Sometimes, these question can be difficult to answer and that is why we’ve gone …

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ServerStack Renews Relationship with Equinix to Enable Continued Delivery of 100% Uptime


REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — January 26, 2012 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that ServerStack, a provider of managed hosting services, will continue to leverage its presence within the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers to deliver high-end managed hosting services including virtualization, storage, load balancing, VPN and CDN. Since joining Platform Equinix™ in 2008, ServerStack has drawn upon the standardization, consistency and …

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Continued Expansion of our European Managed Hosting with 10G Connectivity

With increased demand for our European Managed Hosting we are excited to announce continued expansion of our presence at our premier Telecity facility in Amsterdam. In addition to the new racks that we are setting up we are also taking this opportunity to deploy a new networking fabric with 10G connectivity at the Core and extending to our top of the rack switches.
Utilizing 10G connectivity from the Core to the top of rack switches allows customers to spike their bandwidth …

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ServerStack deploys Isilon Scale-Out Storage to Simplify Data Management for Customers

We are happy to announce today that we have finished our deployment of Isilon scale-out storage as the primary storage resource for our managed hosting services. Using Isilon’s NL-Series, powered by the OneFS® operating system, allows us to provide our customers with on-demand storage resources and enable them to scale applications storage needs without limitations.
“Our customers expect their IT resources on-demand, meaning we can’t use traditional storage since it doesn’t scale quickly or cost-effectively,” said Ben Uretsky, CEO, ServerStack. “Isilon …

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Expanding European Web Hosting Presence with New Telecity Facility in Amsterdam

We are thrilled to announce the expansion of our European Web Hosting division with the addition of space at Telecity’s newest facility in Amsterdam. ServerStack has been providing European Web Hosting out of Amsterdam since June 2006 and we are excited to see the rapid growth of our customers’ businesses in the European sector.
The additional space was rolled out with all of the same enterprise-infrastructure as our flagship facility in the NYC Metro Area. This includes Scale-Out On-Demand Storage through …

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