Archive for the ‘Facilities’ Category

New UPS on site

Monday, July 28th, 2008

If you think of a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) as just a small box that sits under your desk, you have got to see the monsters we use in the datacenter. Sonic.net took delivery today of the first two boxes that make up the UPS portion of our new 500KVA Mitsubishi ...

Green Certification for Sonic.net

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

At the Sonoma County Board of Supervisor's meeting this last Tuesday, Sonic.net received certification under the Sonoma Green Business Program. Of course, Sonic.net's business processes and facilities utilize best common practices. This means recycling, minimized use of paper, low flow fixtures, etc. But, our big green effort is a massive update ...

Greening the Business and the Datacenter

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

For some time, Sonic.net has been working to decrease our environmental impact and our utility costs. Our datacenter here houses a large number of servers and a lot of networking equipment in order to serve the needs of our customers. Reducing our impact and energy use is very ...