US-EVI-1 Datacenter & Network Operations of AS400245.net

PROJECT STATUS: Work-In-Progress

Project Explanation

When I first launched DynaCentri in April of 2020, I hoped to operate in my own data center, which would have given me more flexibility and offered more to customers. Unfortunately, due to the unforeseen wrath of COVID-19 in January 2020, in October 2022, I shut down DynaCentri Operations until the time is right to redeploy.

Contracts & Cross-Connects

As of November 2022, all contracts have been signed for rack space and our cross-connects to Tier 1 ISPs for IP transit.

We will be operating out of a Equinix CH3 Datacenter in Chicago.

Naming Conventions

The most critical naming scheme you’ll ever use and have to get right the first time.

For mine, I decided to use UN/LOCODE as the location code is specific to the city name using only five letters. I like this method over CLLI code as it’s simple to understand and read.

US Chicago 1 will be Equinix CH3 and labeled as US-EVI-1 for Elk Grove Village. Servers such as Plesk would become plesk-1.us-evi-1.datacenter.gg.

While researching I found this blog post by mnx.io which also happens to use UN/LOCODE and goes into much more detail and follows closely how I was already naming stuff before using UN/LOCODE.

Hardware & Procurment

For our Top-of-Rack (ToR) Routing & Switching we will be using MikroTik hardware for the time being. We will later add another router for redundancy and extra capacity.

For the servers, I have purchased several servers and will be adding more later.

March 2023: The Deployment

Engineering Intensifies

Project Log

Log Entry: 2022/04/19 | Datacenter Deployment

All hardware has been installed and ready to configure cluster.

Network is online and colocation customers have service.