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EV1Servers Opens New Facility

Carrier Hotels Staff Posted Mar 3, 2004

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Showcasing the dynamic growth in the dedicated server sector, Houston's EV1Servers this week opened a new data center, which the provider aims to fill with at least 1,000 new servers each month.

That might seem an outlandish prediction for some hosts. But EV1Servers - previously known as Rackshack - has experienced explosve growth in the past year, maxing out both space and power in its existing facility.

Since January of 2003, EV1Servers has grown from hosting about 140,000 hostnames to more than 700,000, according to data from Netcraft. In terms of actual servers, the company has gone from about 1,200 machines to more than 20,000, according to CEO Robert Marsh. In August it maxed out the power supply available from the local utility and had to expand.

The new data center, also in Houston, provides a total of 48,000 square feet of expansion space, which will eventually accommodate another 34,000 servers, according to EV1Servers, which has built out 20,000 square feet of raised-floor space in its $3.5 million first phase.

The extra space allows EV1Servers to add substantially to its inventory of available servers, which has been limited while the company managed the remaining space in its first facility.

EV1Servers has been a pioneer in the discount dedicated server market, pricing servers as low as $99 a month, along with aggressive pricing on add-ons including domain names ($6.49 per year) and secure certificates ($49 a month).