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ORLANDO, Fla., August 18, 2009 ñ HostDime,
a provider of managed hosting services, announced today it has completed construction
of a new data and network operations center in Brazil, greatly expanding the
hosting capacity of the companyís local division, HostDime
Brazil.
When HostDime opened its international
division in Brazil nearly three years ago, there were no plans to open
a data center facility locally. However, rapidly rising demand for locally-hosted
services in Brazil has made the move necessary, and will enable HostDime
Brazil to boast a comparative advantage in terms of both reduced costs
and greater accessibility. Its current client base of over 5,000 clients
just from the Brazil division also has been creating a demand for local
servers, and with more than 200% growth per year in the division, this
facility expansion will propel further growth.
The new 5,000 square foot data center
is located in the equivalent of Class-A office space, down the hall from HostDime
Brazilís business office in the same complex. The data center suite is fully
supported by an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and generator to minimize
service disruption in the event of a power-grid failure. HostDime originally
selected Jo„o Pessoa, ParaÌba, Brazil, to host its operations due to the cityís
record as natural-disaster-free, with no hurricanes or earthquakes in its history.
It is also the easternmost city in the Americas at 34∫47’38”W, 7∫9’28”S and
is often cited as the second greenest city in the world. The data center is
also one of the very few in the northern part of Brazil, helping businesses
to host outside the saturated southern part of Brazil like S„o Paulo.
ìBrazil has a population
of over 200 million and is one of the fastest growing online countries
in the world. While 80% of Brazilian websites are hosted out of the
country due to lower costs, the completion of this facility is key to
converting that 80% into a major source of growth for our Brazilian
division,î said Emmanuel Vivar, HostDime CEO. ìBy hosting sites
locally, latency can be reduced to under 75ms, compared to the more
than 150ms latency for websites hosted on U.S.-based servers.î
To learn more about HostDime,
please visit http://www.hostdime.com.
To learn more about HostDime
Brazil, please visit http://www.hostdime.com.br.
About HostDime
HostDime is a privately owned, leading website
hosting provider offering reliable, secure managed hosting services
that cater to a range of clients, from entry-level to enterprise-level
operations. HostDime owns and operates its own data center in Orlando,
Fla. With a client base of more than 700,000 hosted domains on 3,000
servers, HostDime presently ranks among the top 50 biggest web hosting
companies in the world.
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