Since late last summer, we've been posting occasional updates about our construction progress concerning our datacenter expansion. The reality is that construction was complete at the end of October. We had pre-sold the space to three separate clients, who required colocation cages ranging in size from 300sq' to 700sq'.

We spent November and December preparing those cages. The first client moved into their cage in December. The next moved into their colocation space in late January, in an all-nighter cut-and-move that went off with admirable precision. Our final pre-sale client actually relocated from a set of cabinets in our main facility into a custom cage, with plenty of room to handle their amazing rapid growth (more about them in an upcoming post.) Their move was completed just two weeks ago.

There is still some post-move cleanup to do, but were very proud of our new space, and feel the time is right to unveil it and open it up for further sale. We have over a thousand square feet available, which can be subdivided by cages from 100sq' to 1000sq'. Plenty of power and cooling is available, as we have barely tapped 10% of what our power feed can deliver.

Stay tuned for more expansion news, as we are set to soon take over the entire floor of our building. Meanwhile, enjoy the view of our freshly finished facility expansion:

The shared hosting named "durian" has experienced a hardware-related failure and is undergoing repair. We will post an update as soon as we have an ETA for it being back online.

Update: Durian is fixed and running again. Thanks for your patience.

It is an ironic fact that Network Geeks like us love to have access to more fiber optic cable, but have an almost irrational fear of the equipment that performs the task, namely the backhoe. Yet another fiber provider is landing in our building, but the process to get there involves trenching into one of the fiber vaults. Needless to say, we've been keeping a sharp eye on the crew out in front of the building. (Thankfully our facility enjoys multiple fiber paths so even if there were a backhoe disaster out front, only 33% of our current Internet bandwidth would be at risk.) We've been impressed with the precision and care of this particular crew so far. Their work should wrap up later today.

What does this mean for you, the current or potential digital.forest client? Choices of course! More choices. You can choose to connect to our well-peered BGP4 network. You can choose to connect directly to your preferred carrier, right here in our facility or building. You can choose to use our fiber network to connect to any major Seattle Exchange Point, such as the Westin Building. You can choose to connect your office directly to your servers at digital.forest via a Metropolitan Ethernet connection. You can mix and match any of the above!

We're happy to assist you in the process. Talk to your digital.forest Account Manager for more information. Not yet a digital.forest customer? Contact our Sales staff at 877-720-0483, option 2.

We're currently experiencing problems with our server, Oberon. We're working to resolve the issue, and will post an update as soon as it's resolved.