We fully manage and maintain our own servers dispersed across three premium datacenter locations, powered by SoftLayer, in the continental US:
East Coast — Washington, D.C.
SoftLayer Dallas is located inside the recognized Infomart telecom hotel, a private, Tier III, N+1 facility near downtown Dallas. Infomart is also home to data centers belonging to MCI, Level 3, Equinix, Verio, Switch and Data, Verizon, Telefonica and Via West. It sits on three redundant TXU electrical grids, delivering diverse power to each quadrant of the building, with five on-site 100-ton water chillers meeting N+1 cooling requirements.
Central — Dallas, Texas
SoftLayer Seattle is located in a private N+1 data center facility outside the Seattle fault and liquefaction zones. The facility is designed and constructed to sustain a seismic event while maintaining business functions and boasts low latency through superior connections to Seattle's robust fiber optic loops, 55MW of existing electrical capacity, 45 on-site generators with .5-million gallons of on-site fuel storage, and a carrier vault system supported by more than 50 miles of embedded, secure conduits.
West Coast — Seattle, Washington
SoftLayer D.C. is located in a private N+1 data center facility just 7 miles from Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virginia. The facility is also home to data centers belonging to AT&T and Verizon Business, and receives power from two redundant Dominion Virginia Power grids. It includes three on-site, 600-ton cooling towers, fully meeting N+1 cooling requirements.
All three datacenter facilities boast multi-homed connectivity with bandwidth from independent Tier 1 carriers, combining more than 20 x 10 Gbps connections to create one of the industry's fatest networks. Each server rack features 40G of connectivity, for a level of redundancy and throughput ideal for high performance webhosting services.
Our network uptime across our two dozen dedicated servers has averaged over 99.95% — for more than 6 consecutive years. To learn about specific features in each of our datacenters, please click Read More below.