University Assignment: Datacenter/Networking Infrastructure for Hosting Company [closed]

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My university assigned me to theorizing a data center for an Web Hosting company. The company should provide the following services:

Shared WebHosting;
Dedicated Servers;
VPS (Virtual Private Server);

The bandwith (as resquested) is limited to 10 Gbps.

Is there any good book / other info I can read (max 100 pages) about how to design a good data center for hosting, what are the best practices and what should be done from a (logical) network perspective, what security policies should be implemented and how the data center should be built (physically)?

Thank you ;)

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