There's a lot to do in Amsterdam, now there's one you can tell your parents about – Amsterdam VPS
Adding to our global footprint, VPS.NET has launched our first Amsterdam cloud. Our Amsterdam cloud gives you extremely loading times to users located throughout the Netherlands and makes for a great alternative to our London based clouds for European clients.
This cloud is based on the same technology as our London H & I cloud, which features the OnApp software on the back end, which is what powers and manages our self-healing cloud infrastructure. The cloud also features the same 48 drive redundant SAN setup; this setup is one of VPS.NET’s advantages over competing cloud hosting companies. The way the system works is there are two 48 drive SANs, each in a RAID 10 array with multipath I/O. What this means is data is constantly going in and out of both SAN units as they’re both in an active/active state, so essentially at all times there are 96 active hard drives at your disposal.
Our Amsterdam location is located in the EvoSwitch datacenter, which is in Haarlem, Netherlands, which is just west of Amsterdam. The datacenter features 431,000 square feet of datacenter space, of which VPS.NET has a cage. The datacenter has all the necessities you’d expect, like a A+B power grids, and VESDA fire protection. The datacenter is also completely carbon neutral, and has signed on as part of the MJA, which aims to cut power consumption by 30% over 15 years.