Colocation America is a colocation

Colocation centre

A colocation centre or colocation center , is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers...

 provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, founded in 2000. Colocation America currently serves over 3,000 clients worldwide.

History

In early 2000, Colocation America began in the One Wilshire building in Los Angeles. It now operates out of 22 domestic centers across California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 and Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, with 450000 square feet (41,806.4 m²) of total datacenter space, and announced 100% uptime in the year 2009.

Starting August 9, 2008, the company began hosting the online, fantasy-themed game Ancient Anguish

Ancient Anguish

Ancient Anguish, abbreviated AA, is a fantasy-themed MUD, a text-based online role-playing game. Founded in 1991 by Balz "Zor" Meierhans and Olivier "Drake" Maquelin, it opened to the public on February 2, 1992...

 from their Los Angeles facility.

In September 2010, the Dark Fiber Community website called Colocation America a company which is "Making an Imprint in Los Angeles."

On October 26, 2010, Colocation America brought forth their initiative to provide the IPv6 Internet Protocol. Upgrades were made to their Telecom Center location in Los Angeles followed by a swell in staff.

A dedicated server donation was made to CentOS

CentOS

CentOS is a free operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution...

, a community-supported software operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

, on December 22, 2010.