Custom Colocation in a State-of-the-Art Facility
Premier Location
Our data center at 425 Randolph Street is located in one of Chicago's premier facilities offering more than 20,000 sq ft of total space and 10,000 sq ft dedicated solely to our colocation services. The remaining 10,000 sq ft is used to deliver our various managed and cloud hosting solutions.
Quality Support
With more than 12 years experience supporting over 600,000 websites and 15,000 managed servers, we have the knowledge and expertise to offer exceptional support for all of our colocation customers. We have developed a repeatable process throughout our organization by which 300 plus individuals are supporting our customers every day, and have SAS 70 type II compliant data centers in Austin and Tampa and coming soon in Chicago.
Reliable Infrastructure
Originally built for Ameritech's network operations center, the Chicago data center's building provides over 3,000 tons of AC capacity dedicated to Hostway and is powered by 7 individual electrical feeds from 5 different substations. Our data center alone is powered by 4 separate electrical feeds from 4 individual substations. We have UPS battery backup and an onsite generator with over 11 hours of fuel capacity. Our backbone networks are fully redundant with multiple providers of bandwidth with a dark fiber connection to 350 Cermak.
Value Added Support Services
We provide a wide range of a la carte services that complement our colocation offerings. From remote hands, managed firewall to intrusion detection, load balancing to database administration in the cloud, we offer everything you need to build the custom solution to meet your business needs so you can focus on what matters most.
People
Our data center is staffed with industry experts who have a proven track record of success. We have local experts on hand 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. To complement our local support teams, we also have a worldwide network of 300 plus support and development individuals across 4 continents and 12 countries.
Flexible
In our Chicago data center we offer half or full cabinets, various-sized cages and private suites with multiple options for electricity and bandwidth as well as monthly or annual contracts.
Financial Stability
Hostway is a privately held company with a proven and successful business model. Over the last 12 years, we have established a track record of profitable growth. The company has a revenue run rate in excess of $100 million with over 700 employees. As a vote of confidence in our business model and prospects for further growth, Hostway closed a $110 million debt and equity financing deal with a consortium of investors to support its continued growth plans in early 2010.
Secure
We maintain state-of-the-art security operations at all of our 12 data center locations. Our Chicago facility is equipped with 24/7 live video surveillance, biometric access to the data center, secure keycard access to the building, K-9 patrolled parking facility and building perimeter as well as dry pipe fire suppression with smoke/heat under floor detection.
Business Partner
In today's competitive business environment, we provide our customers every opportunity to avoid capital expenditures and generate new revenue sources. Hostway offers a broad range of partner programs so our customers can deliver new value added infrastructure services as a compliment to their core business. Partners can resell our infrastructure services as their own private label offerings or direct through Hostway.
