Dallas data center gets major infrastructure upgrades
By ColossusCloud's Team
Our engineering team spent the past week on-site at our Dallas, Texas data center, completing a series of infrastructure upgrades that significantly expand our capacity and improve performance for customers in the southern United States.
Hypervisor expansion: 4TB of new RAM capacity
The centerpiece of this upgrade is the addition of new hypervisor nodes, bringing 4 terabytes of additional RAM capacity to our Dallas facility. This expansion directly translates to more resources available for VPS hosting customers, reduced resource contention, and the ability to support larger virtual machine configurations.
Each new hypervisor runs our proven KVM virtualization stack, ensuring full hardware-assisted virtualization with dedicated CPU cores and RAM allocations for every VPS instance.
Ceph storage node modernization
Our Ceph distributed storage infrastructure received substantial attention during this visit. The engineering team systematically replaced existing Ceph nodes with newer hardware, one node at a time to maintain continuous availability throughout the process.
The new storage nodes feature:
- Faster NVMe drives for improved IOPS performance
- Higher capacity per node, expanding our total storage pool
- Updated networking for better replication throughput between nodes
Ceph’s distributed architecture means your VPS data is replicated across multiple physical drives automatically. When we upgrade individual nodes, the cluster rebalances seamlessly without any customer-facing downtime.
Expanded cluster capacity
Beyond the node replacements, we added net-new capacity to our Ceph clusters. This expansion supports our growing customer base while maintaining the performance headroom that prevents storage bottlenecks during peak usage periods.
Additional architecture improvements
The on-site visit allowed our team to complete a dozen additional improvements to the Dallas facility’s architecture, including:
- Network path optimizations
- Redundancy enhancements
- Monitoring and alerting refinements
- Firmware updates across infrastructure components
- Cable management and documentation updates
These smaller improvements compound over time, contributing to the overall reliability that our customers depend on.
What this means for Dallas VPS customers
If your VPS runs in our Dallas data center, you benefit from:
- More available capacity for scaling your VPS when needed
- Improved storage performance from the modernized Ceph nodes
- Enhanced reliability from the architecture refinements
- Future-proofing as we continue to invest in infrastructure
Our commitment to infrastructure investment
This Dallas upgrade is part of our ongoing commitment to maintaining modern, high-performance infrastructure across all six data center locations. We regularly schedule on-site engineering visits to each facility, ensuring that hardware stays current and capacity grows ahead of demand.
If you’re looking for VPS hosting with a provider that invests in real infrastructure, explore our VPS plans or contact us with questions about our Dallas facility.
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