About Us

NetDepot was founded by the owners of GNAX.net to offer a high end unmanaged alternative to their popular managed server line provided by tranxactglobal.com.

With more than 13 years in the industry GNAX is trusted by 1000’s of customers some of which are still with the company since 1994.

NetDepot is part of the Global Net Access Group which is one of the few companies that is profitable with very little debt.  The company practices the philosophy of providing our customers with the latest in technology while remaining profitable through measured growth.  Our goal is to be the strongest long term player in the market of providing on demand IT assets to our customers.  This means we will not be the biggest but our customers can count on us day in and day out vs. those that come on strong grow and then burn out and go away. 

This philosophy also applies to our deployment of technology assets to our customers. All new offerings and technology goes through rigorous testing and customer feedback tests before deployment for general availability.  This approach sometimes puts the rollout months behind the competition which may roll out a product sooner in a rush to be first to the market but our customers can count on the product being solid when it is given the NetDepot seal of approval.

We offer affordable dedicated server packages for as little as $105.00 per month. We aim to be a low cost / high quality web host net by managing our backbone and not spending money on items outside of infrastructure which costs the customer money. We are profitable and have little relative debt unlike most companies out there. This provides for reliable support and operations of your key equipment and sites.

NetDepot currently houses all servers in the AtlantaNAP facility and strives to conduct its business in an environmentally responsible green manner.  Some of the things that are being done currently to accomplish this are as follows:

Advanced variable frequency / speed drives on all main pumps and cooling tower fans

Heat pumps to heat the generator room and all employee occupied spaces during the winter – these remove heat from the data center and transfer it to the generators and office areas instead of burning more electricity or gas to do this while exhausting data center to the outside environment.

Building computer control to optimally run all the systems with only the amount of power needed to meet the set points on the equipment.  This monitors the pumps, fans, temperatures and electricity usage hundreds of times per minute and makes adjustments so that they are running optimally to minimize power usage – much more efficient than manual human intervention.

We use well water – NetDepot installed a well to supply water to the cooling towers which reduces the amount of electricity used to pump the water to the facility, eliminates the use of chemicals in the water from the water treatment facility, and takes the load off of the municipal water system to add to the city’s conservation efforts of the local reservoirs.

High efficiency lighting – we utilize high efficiency lighting throughout the building to minimize power consumption.

Georgia Power audits – we conduct audits with the efficiency experts from Georgia Power to find more ways of conserving power as new technologies come out.  We currently have been told that we are the most efficient data center in the area however we still look to optimize when we can.

LEED certification – the facility is undergoing LEED certification since it is at the leading edge of energy efficiency and environmentally responsible data centers already. This is enhanced through a minimalist building approach that requires that no non essential materials are used in the facility.  This minimizes the impact on energy consumption of making the superfluous materials that don’t impact operations and lessening the actual materials input including harmful Volatile Organic Compounds. 

Recycling – all materials that are able to be recycled are – the cardboard from all packing is recycled locally as is all metals that are waste from construction and power installation process.  All old computer components are also recycled and do not meet the landfill. We have even gone to mass shipment of new servers to minimize packing materials usage in the traditional single server packing method which greatly reduces the amount of non cardboard packing materials which are traditionally difficult to recycle.

The Hinkle Benchmark
New metrics for tracking data center efficiency – our company has developed a new standard that can be used by all providers to track the efficiency of delivering computing power to the end user on average.  As the business has grown cpu’s have become more efficient in providing more computing power as well as more energy efficient in delivering the computing power. While trying to come up with a way to track our efficient use of resources we came up with a new benchmark which we are making public domain for use by all.  The Hinkle Benchmark measures how efficiently the data center is delivering cpu power across their entire platform by dividing the Passmark score of the chip by the power consumption  of the chip score to arrive at an individual Hinkle benchmark number for the chip. Then by adding the entire score by the total inventory of the chips in production at the data center and dividing the resulting number by the number of overall chips in production we arrive at the Hinkle benchmark for the entire data center.  It is our goal to be a leader in this area and we believe that with general industry adoption this will lead to the more efficient deployment and modernization of cpu fleets at providers which will reduce the amount of power used to deliver the applications. We encourage all providers to adopt the standard and publicly post their weekly numbers so that users through their purchase decisions can see the impact they are having.

All of this means that you won’t see over the top fancy materials added on to the key components necessary for world class operations at the facility or excess power and resources being used and you can be assured that this approach is lessening the impact on the environment for future generations.