Free air did the cooling here: heat left the Tauranga hall on forced fresh air rather than refrigerant-cooled air except when outside temperatures ran particularly high, with N+1 cooling and LED lighting throughout. The business started in 1999 as NetSmart, grew into the largest internet provider in the Bay of Plenty on a self-built rural wireless network, sold that network in 2016 and rebuilt itself around the data centre. Space went by the rack unit - NZ$135 a month for 1U through NZ$349 for 4U, each with a /29 and an unmetered 100 Mbps port, NZ$400 for a half cabinet and NZ$700 for a full one with power and bandwidth billed separately. Customers had 24x7 access without booking a slot. The street address was never published; the operator said its offices sat apart from the hall and gave only a Whakatane post office box. Both New Zealand companies that traded as Eco Data Services Limited have since been struck off the register, on 19 February 2020 and 19 March 2021, and ecodata.co.nz now resolves to Tekit Limited of Whakatane.
Free air. Heat was removed with forced fresh air rather than refrigerant-cooled air except when outside temperatures were particularly high, on an N+1 cooling plant, with LED lighting throughout and server virtualisation used to cut load.
What did space cost here?
NZ$135 a month for 1U, NZ$215 for 2U, NZ$295 for 3U and NZ$349 for 4U, each with a /29 and a 100 Mbps unmetered port; a half cabinet was NZ$400 and a full cabinet NZ$700 with power and bandwidth excluded. All figures excluded GST.
Which companies traded as Eco Data Services Limited?
Two. New Zealand company 944098, incorporated in 1999 as NetSmart Limited and now named TIX Limited, removed from the register on 19 March 2021; and company 1758165, formerly WISP Direct and Fast Data Solutions, now ED Services Limited, removed on 19 February 2020. Paul Josef Horak was sole director of both.
Where did the operator publish its address?
It gave a postal address only - P.O. Box 776, Whakatane 3158 - and stated that its offices were located separately from the data centre. The street address of the Tauranga building was never released.
Who holds the Eco Data name now?
Tekit Limited of 33 Waiewe Street, Whakatane, a managed IT firm the ecodata.co.nz domain now redirects to. Its directors separately hold Ecodata Limited, registered in 2019 and a different company from the Tauranga operator.