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The datacenter where
we rent a virtual server, through a South African agent, is located
in Dallas Texas.
Dallas is the second-largest
city in Texas, after Houston, and eighth largest in the United States,
Dallas is one of the most important commercial, financial, and distribution
centres of the south-west, and is also a major regional manufacturing
and cultural centre. With the nearby city of Fort Worth (to the
west), it forms the hub of a major metropolitan region of the United
States. Population 1,188,580 (2000).
Dallas has a diverse
economic base. Leading employers include the manufacturing, retail,
and wholesale trades and the finance and insurance industries. Among
the city's most important manufactured goods are electronic and
electrical equipment, transport equipment, processed foods, and
publishing and printed materials. The leading banking centre of
the south-west, it is the site of a district Federal Reserve bank.
The city is also the headquarters for a number of large insurance
and oil companies, and the site for regional offices of many federal
agencies.
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