Our hosting partner's data centre offers a secure, resilient environment for our web hosting platform. Along with our cutting edge server technology our data centre allows us to offer you our famous 100% network uptime guarantee.
Based in a secure facility the data centre is built to an N+1 specification so should any particular service fail e.g. electricity or air conditioning, another backup service automatically takes over the failed services job.
Dual power feeds enter the building at different points and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) ensure that all power to the server area is clean and spike free, in the event of a power outage the UPS can take the entire data centre load for up to five minutes, however within 20 seconds our redundant generators are able to indefinitely take on the entire data centre load.
The data centre is manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so that if something does go wrong engineers can respond quickly and effectively to the problem.
Access to the data centre is via a master access list using Smart Card authentication, access to the data centre is by invitation only.
CCTV operates throughout the facility.
The temperature of the data centre is kept at a steady 20oC to allow optimum equipment performance.
The data centre's incipient fire detection system monitors the room for the slightest chance of fire and allows operators to respond in the event of such a threat.
Our current server specification is:-
Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3.2GHz with 1MB Cache
4 GB SDRAM
Dual 72 GB SCSI Drive (for the operating system)
RAID Mirroring (for the operating system)
Dual Power Supplies
Dual Gigabit Network Adapters
Our hosting partner's network operates on industry leading network equipment from Cisco Systems, all our switches and routers are developed by Cisco. Our network is based on gigabit technology which means that it runs at a speed of 1000 Mb per second, most web hosting networks are limited to 100 Mb per second.
Their network also utilise's 100% CAT6 network cable, CAT6 cable contains four pairs of copper wire and unlike CAT5, utilise's all four pairs. CAT6 supports Gigabit (1000 Mbps) Ethernet and supports communications at more than twice the speed of CAT5e, the other popular standard for Gigabit Ethernet cabling.
Redhat is the leading provider of Linux open source software, for many years now Redhat Linux has been the number one choice for web hosting companies. Not just because of Redhats amazing scalability but also because of its track record as the most stable operating system available in the market today.
Our systems utilise the latest Redhat server technology to allow our servers to be continually up to date with Redhat system & security patches.
Unlike many of our competitors we run Redhat Enterprise Linux, the most stable release of Redhat Linux available and the only version that stays totally up to date with security patches.
Our hosting partner operates a multi-homed network utilising BGP4 technology, simply put we have multiple connections to the Internet with different backbone providers, should any connection fail our other connections automatically take all the traffic. Not only does this mean that we are very unlikely to lose connectivity to the Internet but it also means that traffic moving to and from our network can choose from a range of paths to get to its final destination, this means that we have been able to configure the network to always take the fastest paths.
Our hosting partner is the only UK hosting company that will GUARANTEE 100% network availability and 97.9% server uptime.
