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Mozilla adds second major datacenter in Phoenix
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010, 18:13 IST
Arizona: Mozilla has added a second major datacenter in Phoenix to accommodate the growth of its open source software projects, especially the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client, reports Data Center Knowledge. The non-profit corporation will house six racks and around 80 servers at the Phoenix ONE datacenter operated by i/o Data Centers.
The expansion space in Phoenix will support Mozilla's primary datacenter in California, with production applications running in both locations. The project also has smaller satellite facilities in Amsterdam and Beijing.
"Since 2006, we have tripled the amount of datacenter floor space, grown our user base 8.75 times and now push 18x the bandwidth," Matthew Zeier from the Mozilla operations team wrote in a blog post. "Sure, in comparison to other sites, this growth is small. It's no Facebook. But it's still a significant amount of infrastructure that supports 350 million users and the world's most popular web browser (We are at about one engineer to 43.7m users (or one to 800 servers)."
Mozilla's Phoenix servers will reside in one of the world's largest datacenters, providing plenty of headroom for expansion as the user base for open source software continues to grow. Phoenix ONE is a 538,000 square foot facility that integrates solar power and thermal energy storage. The facility, which opened last June, features 180,000 square feet of raised floor space in its first phase. i/o Data Centers has already begun construction on phase II of the datacenter, which will also be 180,000 square feet.
Phoenix ONE is building out an enormous rooftop array of solar panels, which will eventually generate as much as 4.5 megawatts of power for the datacenter - nearly three times the capacity of Google's rooftop solar array at its California headquarters. A thermal storage system will allow i/o Data Centers to run chillers for its cooling systems at night, when power rates are lower, and then store cold water for use during daylight hours.
