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About our reliable network facility
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USSHC is in Monticello, Iowa. Established in 2003 to provide total redundancy for a local ISP. USSHC has expanded to offer full disaster recovery and collocation services to a wide variety of consumers. USSHC provides a full range of services from its secure data center in their military-built, hardened, underground facility. Designed to survive and operate normally during a major disaster (including a solar mass ejection or an EMP blast from a nuclear bomb), the facility has been a premier choice for leaders in internet services, technology startups, and Fortune 500 companies. USSHC is a privately held company based in Eastern Iowa.
Situated in a bunker built by the US Army Corps of Engineers during the cold war, USSHC offers highly secure data center floor space that is immune to nearly all conceivable forms of manmade and natural disasters |
100% uptime SLA guarantee
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Physical Security
USSHC underground colocation data center building is heavily reinforced, purposely built to withstand the ravages of a close range nuclear strike. No other natural or man made disaster compares to the amount of damaged inflicted by a multi-megaton nuclear weapon detonated at close range.
In addition, it is highly immune to one of the largest causes of all disasters: flooding. The data center is located on a dedicated parcel of land unshared with any other tenants that not only is the higher than all surrounding land, and receives absolutely no water runoff from any other parcel of land, but has an elevation that is several hundred feet above the nearest flood plain. And the nearest flood plain is located several miles away. In fact, if a glass of water is poured out at the proper place on our campus, half of it can end up running in one direction to one watershed, and one river, and the other half will run in another direction, to a different watershed and to a different river. No municipal water supplies are located within a mile of our isolated facility, completely eliminating not only our dependence on any outside water supply, but the danger from a ruptured water main causing spot flooding.
Our underground colocation facility was constructed with 5800psi concrete. Steel reinforced floors, walls, and ceilings are standard of course. The floor alone is five feet thick. The interior walls separating the interior rooms are over one foot thick. Floors, ceilings, and walls are covered with a continuously welded-seam steel skin that was designed to reflect an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) caused by a nuclear detonation or a Solar Flair Ejection. The heavy construction topped with a layer of earth is designed to withstand the heat, wind and blast effects of a nuclear weapon. The vault doors to our underground facility are designed to keep out a nuclear blast. Hence, they also work well to keep out intruders.
The equipment at USSHC that can handle 20 times the force of gravity (20Gs) of acceleration forces are rigidly mounted, and anything that can't take 20Gs are mounted on springs. This is quite a bit higher than any measured earthquake.
Our security systems, access systems, and surveillance systems are implemented in layers. Each exterior layer protects the interior layers. Multiple biometric systems protect each layer, each layer granting access to another layer. This ensures that any breach is contained to just the layer that is breached. Authorities can be summoned by exterior layers while the interior layers remain secure.
Our generators aren't just N+1 where multiple systems that feed a common buss. Any common buss is a common point of failure. Our systems are stacked in layers, allowing a complete generation system and buss failure to occur, without affecting the availability of the other on site power systems. And one set of redundant power generation systems is contained within the underground colocation data center, where it remains protected in the event that it is needed.
Power is redundant all the way to the rack, where two power feeds are available, from two isolated UPS systems.
Our connectivity is geographically diverse. Dual isolated routers create two separate networks within our facility. We can provide dual data drops to feed each rack, or a single drop that is BGP4 multi homed to both geographically diverse providers.
Even our primary air conditioning system has a primary backup, and a secondary backup system, again, in layers. The primary and backup systems are separated, and do not even share common duct work. The primary air conditioning system utilizes several miles of buried geothermal tubing on the USSHC campus. The dual redundant backup air conditioning systems are entirely contained within the facility, with no exposed cooling systems.
In the event that the surface of the earth is wiped clean, our facility would not only continue to operate, but we would have one completely extra power generation system on standby, and two separate air conditioning systems on standby.
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