A photo from Online Tech’s website shows part of the installation process
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Online Tech (onlinetech.com) announced on Tuesday that it has invested more than $1 million in upgrades and expansion to its Flint, Michigan data center.
According to the press release, the upgrades have been completed over the past nine months.
Earlier this month Online Tech upgraded its web-based client portal, OTPortal.
Online Tech says the data center was built in 1986 to function as a disaster recovery center for General Motors. Online Tech took over the facility in 2005 with its acquisition of Gentech, according to the press release.
With this investment, Online Tech focused on three core areas, including assurance of a high availability infrastructure, improving energy efficiency and an overall improved experience for its clients.
Online Tech upgraded its UPS infrastructure and added 100 KW of power to deliver 1 megawatt of power to the data center floor, according to the press release.
“all of our data center equipment, which we monitor and maintain on a consistent basis, is carefully audited to determine a timeline of use life,” Yan Ness, CEO of Online Tech said in a statement. “As the UPS infrastructure was reaching the end of its useful life, we wanted to replace it proactively to assure no incidents or risk to our client base.”
According to the press release, the UPS and Computer Room AC upgrades deliver higher energy effciency. the energy efficiency of the UPS system in particular increased from 80 percent to 92.5 percent with the installation of new MGE UPSs from Schneider Electric. Online Tech says the upgraded CRAC units are more energy efficient since they take advantage of free cooling.
Last week, CoreLink upgraded the UPS systems in its data centers with Schneider Electric.
Online Tech also added more work ares, conference rooms and a kitchen for clients to use.
“It can be hard working inside a data center with high noise levels and lack of work surfaces,” Mike Klein, president of Online Tech said in a statement. “we wanted to give our clients a place outside of the data center where they can take a break, have meetings or get some work done in a more relaxed environment.”
Online Tech has two data centers in Michigan, one in Flint and one in Ann Arbor.
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