Our Infrastructure
What It Is
Madd-Hosting operates at multiple data centers in Amsterdam, Dallas, Houston, London, San Jose, Seattle, Singapore, and Washington D.C., built upon SoftLayer’s unique pod data center design concept. Our data centers are functionally independent with distinct and redundant resources, and fully integrated through SoftLayer’s revolutionary network architecture, allowing seamless intra-data center capabilities. Customers have direct control over their systems in any SoftLayer data center and full access to all of SoftLayer’s backend services—all fully automated and on demand. Our highly trained engineers are available to provide on-site, enterprise-class services in the event a non-automated function is needed. SoftLayer data centers are SSAE16 compliant, meeting industry-recognized requirements for security and reliability. The exhaustive, third-party certification assessment included extensive testing of the control objectives and activities at all SoftLayer data center facilities, including oversight by executive management, operations and customer service, development and information technology organization, human resources policies and procedures, and risk assessment monitoring. Additionally, SoftLayer is self-certified with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S.-European Union (EU) Safe Harbor framework, verifying that SoftLayer meets the EU’s adequacy standard for data and privacy protection. Self-certification and participation in the Safe Harbor framework is entirely voluntary. For official documentation or any questions regarding SoftLayer’s SSAE16 compliance and Safe Harbor self-certification, please contact sales@softlayer.com.
Data Center Pod Concept
SoftLayer builds out its data center facilities using an innovative “pod” design. Each facility consists of one or more pods, with each pod built to the same specifications using best-in-class methodologies to support up to 5,000 servers. Leveraging this standardization across all geographic locations, we optimize key performance variables including space, power, network, personnel, and internal infrastructure.We are currently in the process of converting data centers acquired through our merger with The Planet to utilize this unique design approach.
Key Advantages
On-Demand, Virtual Data Center Through IPMI 2.0 server technologies, secure and remote out-of-band management, and proprietary automated solutions, SoftLayer provides a highly scalable, on-demand, virtual data center experience.
Geographic Diversity With fully-featured data centers in Amsterdam, Dallas, Houston, London, San Jose, Seattle, Singapore, and Washington D.C., SoftLayer provides geographic diversity ideal for maintaining system and data redundancy, as well as for placing systems in the optimal physical location for traffic volume and speeds.
Redundant, Best-in-Class Infrastructure All SoftLayer data centers maintain multiple power feeds, fiber links, dedicated generators, and battery backup. They are built from industry-leading hardware and equipment, ensuring the highest level of performance, reliability, and interoperability.
SoftLayer’s Data Center to Data Center Network provides free, dedicated, and secure connection between servers housed in any SoftLayer facility.
- Dedicated 20Gbps fiber link
- Automatic fail-over through alternate secure connection
- Secure, high-speed data transmission between data centers
- 16 network Points of Presence (POPs) provide direct or non-direct network connections for exceptionally low latency