New datacenter for hosting services in Paris

We’re very pleased to announce the opening of FR-SD3, a new datacenter in Paris, in Alpha test phase. This new data center is part of a whole new points-of-presence architecture completely designed by our team on brand new hardware which is set to become the basis of our future of our hosting infrastructure. So far, our performance tests have come out much to our satisfaction: we’re seeing a 30% performance improvement on CPUs, a huge improvement in terms of latency when accessing disks (nearly two times as fast) and 30% more rapid memory access as well.

The following Gandi Cloud services are available on the new datacenter: Servers, System Disks, IP addresses, and Virtual Private Networks (VLANs). The only service not available for now on FR-SD3 are Web Accelerators, which we expect to introduce on the new datacenter at a later stage.

And while this datacenter is currently in Alpha, if you decide to try it out, you’ll be in good company. We are already using it to host some of our own infrastructure (though our resources are obviously isolated from our customers’) including our new web site as well as a few of the services associated with it. That’s why, having field-tested it ourselves, we can say with confidence that you’re going to like this new datacenter.

But don’t just take our word for it. If we’ve managed to catch your attention, you can already start using this new infrastructure. We would ask that you do keep in mind, though, that it is still in Alpha testing, so we don’t recommend running production systems on it yet. To take it for a spin, though, you just need to choose “FR-SD3” from the list of data center options when you create your next server using either our site, the API, or Gandi CLI.

And if you’re still not convinced, we’re only charging Gandi server credits (or your prepaid account) for bandwidth consumed. The consumption rates for services created in “FR-SD3” will still be displayed on the website but nothing be deduced from your resources.

We’ll be running Alpha and later Beta tests at least until the end of February 2017. While we tentatively hope to go live with this new infrastructure by March 1, we will let you know 15 days in advance so that you can plan for the return to our normal hosting rates based on resources consumed.

We hope as many of you as possible get a chance to try out the new archiecture and, obviously, provide us with your feedback, which is always immensely valuable to us. Any questions or comments can be directed to us on Twitter or by email at feedback@gandi.net or of course by contacting our Customer care team directly.