365 Main, the Bay Area's safest, most secure and reliable critical facility, today announced that Colossus, a substantial Web hosting company serving nearly 71,000 domains with customers in Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Central America, Europe, North America, and South America moved into 365 Main's critical facility after a transformer explosion and flaming oil heavily damaged their Reno office and rocked downtown Reno businesses last year.

In addition to its downtown San Francisco location, beginning in 1999, 365 Main underwent a $130 million renovation to transform its critical facility into a secure, state-of-the-art, and seismically base-isolated data center. 365 Main is equipped with state of the art pre-action laser-based and particulate sampling VEDSA (Very Early Smoke Detection Alarms) systems to provide smoke and fire detection to isolate and extinguish incidents before they begin.

"We scoured the country looking for a cost-effective colocation facility, before we found 365 Main," Eric Klien, President, Colossus Web Hosting Services. "We found northern California facilities to be the best deal, probably due to the aftermath of the dot com implosion. 365 Main's facility was the most rugged structure we found in northern California and since it was reasonably priced, we decided to relocate our operations to their building."

365 Main's building has been granted "Essential Facility" status, assuring that its facility will remain operational and safe during and after a major earthquake, fire or other disaster, and that tenants will be allowed on-site without the city inspection required of non-essential structures to enable continuous business activity.

"We are happy Colossus made the decision to choose us as the place to relocate their core business structure," Says Kevin Shanahan, Vice President for 365 Main. "With our world class facility and solid, safe and reliable infrastructure, Colossus can focus on growing their business now instead of worrying about protecting it against future disasters."

In addition, 365 Main also meets and surpasses the highest possible building standards set by the Uniform Building Code (UBC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). 365 Main is built to such a high safety standard that it is the only data center pre-qualified for an expedited disaster recovery process by the City and County of San Francisco's Building Occupancy Resumption Program and was the only data center chosen by California Department of Mines and Geology for their study of seismic integrity.