Datacenters

Primary Datacenter

Our primary datacenter is located at 427 S LaSalle St in Chicago, Illinois.

This datacenter is known as Coresite CH1 and it is strategically located in downtown Chicago, next to the Board of Trade. This datacenter offers native cloud onramps to AWS, Azure and Google as well as access to the Open Cloud Exchange.

The quick network optimization to the cloud as well as the local Chicago market make this the perfect location for hosting your services and reaching your customers.

This datacenter is 178,000 square feet (16,500 square meters) and offers 24/7/365 security, field operations, remote hands and customer service.

The downtown location of the facility offers exceptional power resiliency due to multiple local substations and underground network configurations.

This datacenter offers peering exchanges through Any2Exchange, AMS-IX Chicago, United IX Chicago and DE-CIX with diverse POEs, MDFs and IDFs available. Fiber, copper and coaxial cross connects are available.

The security and access of this facility is controlled by key cards, biometric scanners, perimeter and interior IP cameras as well as 24/7/365 security personnel.

On-site, you will find:

• N+1 redundant generators
• 36 hours of fuel storage
• N, N+1, 2N redundancy for UPS/PDU/RPP
• N+1 redundancy for chilling plants, CRAHs and chilled water pumps
• Exceptional low-latency

This datacenter possesses the following compliance certifications:

• SOC 1 Type 2
• SOC 2 Type 2
• ISO 27001
• NIST 800-53
• PCI DSS
• HIPAA

The vast majority of our equipment and operations is based out of this datacenter.

Our testing, at this location, as of 08/19/2024 resulted in the following performance:

– Sub 1ms ping times to Equinix CH1 (350 East Cermak)

– Avg 20ms ping times to Equinix DA1 (Dallas, 1950 Stemmons)

– Avg 9ms ping times to Detroit

– Avg 23ms ping times to Houston (Data Foundry HOU2)

– Avg 50ms ping times to Los Angeles (Equinix LA1)

– Avg 30ms ping times to Miami (Equinix MI1)

– Avg 18ms ping times to New York City (Equinix NY1)

– Avg 80ms ping times to London (Cogent)

Other Datacenters

ChicagoCloud also operates certain servers and services through alternative datacenters and hosting providers.

These servers and services operate out of locations such as, but not limited to:

• Vint Hill, Virginia
• Hillsboro, Oregon
• Elk Grove Village, Illinois
• Honolulu, Hawaii
• Los Angeles, California
• Miami, Florida

The exact datacenters, providers and services vary from location to location. We’re always looking to explore new datacenter opportunities or expand into a new geographical market.