What is a DataCenter?

Genneraly a datacenter is a term used to describe a large room where servers are set up on the internet.

Datacenters are generally climate contoled for temperature and humidity to provide maximum effecintcy of servers and routing hardware.

Datacenters normally have large amounts of bandwith that can be distributed between many servers.

In commercial datacenters companies lease cabinets similar to highschool lockers and purchase bandwith from the datacenter. This allows a small company to get the benefit of a million dollar datacenter for about $1000.00 a month.

It also provides their customers security, dependability and assuances that their website is stored in a safe enviorment.

Datacenters can often have hundreds of smaller companies buying space and bandwith making the operation of the datacenter a very lucritive operation.

Another advantage of commercial datacenters is burstable bandwith.

In a private office a company may have a dedicated T-1 line with 1.5 MBS. If the company website is accessed by many customers at the same time the site will slow down to a crawl. But in a datacenter there is likely 100MBS or more available and can improve performace and accessability of a website.

The primary reason a company would use a commercial datacenter is to get large amounts of bandwith that they could never get directly in their own office.