{"id":9787,"date":"2013-12-16T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2899964"},"modified":"2013-12-16T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:20:00","slug":"data-center-shopping-six-factors-to-consider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/data-center-shopping-six-factors-to-consider-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Center Shopping: Six Factors to Consider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either you\u2019ve outgrown your server space or you\u2019re a brand new company that needs to find a data center. What do you do? Shopping for a data center seems like a daunting process and it really can be, but if you know what to look for, you\u2019ll find the right place in no time.<br \/>\nFirst, you need to find a reputable broker and figure out your list of data center requirements, so the broker knows what kind of data centers to look for.<br \/>\nThe specific requirements are where it gets a bit tricky. Let\u2019s break it down:<br \/>\nYou need to ask yourself how much power your current hardware uses. The average cabinet in a SingleHop data center ranges from 5-7 kw a cabinet. To put that into perspective, the average household alone uses 5 kw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2899964\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either you&rsquo;ve outgrown your server space or you&rsquo;re a brand new company that needs to find a data center. What do you do? Shopping for a data center seems like a daunting process and it really can be, but if you know what to look for, you&rsquo;ll find the right place in no time.<br \/>\nFirst, you need to find a reputable broker and figure out your list of data center requirements, so the broker knows what kind of data centers to look for.<br \/>\nThe specific requirements are where it gets a bit tricky. Let&rsquo;s break it down:<br \/>\nYou need to ask yourself how much power your current hardware uses. The average cabinet in a SingleHop data center ranges from 5-7 kw a cabinet. To put that into perspective, the average household alone uses 5 kw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2899964\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}