Greetings everyone! I’m Brock Noland - the new team member here at Idologic. I’ll be around mostly on Friday nights and over the weekends.

I am a UNIX geek at heart. As such, I am really enjoying my work here at Idologic! As it’s a different industry, I am still learning the nuances of cPanel and DirectAdmin, but am learning them all pretty quickly. I have been running websites and working with Linux/UNIX for around 10 years.

Soon after I started interviewing at Idologic, I knew that Idologic was going to be a fun place to work. I had 4 or 5 interviews before a decision was made. My friends and family kept saying, “you have another interview, I thought this was a part time position!” At that point, I knew that Idologic invested heavily in finding the right people - which I feel translates in a very positive working environment.

My interest in websites started early. I was somewhere around 12 or 13 when I built my first website. It was a Mountain Dew fan site, where I sold Mountain Dew T-Shirts via mail order. The site was shutdown when my ISP realized they had a 13 year old running a business from his personal “web space”.

Currently, I maintain a few websites, the most popular being my blog on learning the Linux/UNIX command line, BASH Cures Cancer.

When not working, I love to sail with my father on Lake Superior. We usually sail in the Apostle Islands, though last year there was a trip to the improbable US possession of Isle Royale. Currently there is talk of storming the Canadian shore and/or Chicago this summer. Someday soon, I hope to sail in the trade winds, or at least someplace that’s warm!

I suppose that’s all for now. I am looking forward to meeting everyone!

We’ve had a vast majority of our (customers’) servers in the 56 Marietta Street datacenter in downtown Atlanta for a couple of years now. We’ve been pretty happy with the datacenter and its overall track record of being responsive to us and providing a quality service. However, we’ve pretty much filled our space at the datacenter and need to expand.

Idologic has chosen the datacenter at 55 Marietta street (yes, across the street from our current one) to expand to. This datacenter will provide Idologic with a lot of room to grow and expand over the coming years. We’re excited about placing our new servers in this datacenter (which is on the same network at the 56 Marietta location).

As company, in addition to providing top of the line customer service, we’re dedicated to offering our customers the best and latest technology available. Our technical team has spent a lot of time, money, and effort into designing our space in this state of the art datacenter. Some of the things this new location will feature:

- One hour of UPS power backup per rack (at full load), which can be expanded easily to 8 hours
- Filtered power
- A backup generator
- GigE private and public connections
- KVM access
- Remote reboot port accessThe last two features might particularly interest our dedicated server customers. The location will allow us to continue to grow and improve our offerings. We’ve already ordered all of the necessary parts. When they’re delivered, racked, and setup, we’ll be able to offer servers in this new datacenter. It’s exciting for us a company.For our current customers in 56 Marietta, there will be no migrations or anything. Your servers will stay there and will continue to operate like they usually do. This only affects new customers and customers who will be purchasing a dedicated server in the future.