Network and Technology Used On Your Account

Your web hosting account includes only the best quality equipment, enabling us to provide a top performing and a stable web hosting service to our diverse range of clients.

Server Details:

Hardware
All hosting accounts benefit from the use of industrial strength web server equipment for performance and reliability including Intel Pentium and Sun Sparc based systems. All servers have dual processors, dual 100Mbit Ethernet adapters, a minimum of 1 gigabyte of memory and a server grade mainboard and chipset. Storage is spread across multiple Ultra 160 SCSI hard disk drives using Adaptec RAID controllers.

Operating System
The UNIX machines are predominately FreeBSD based with Sun Solaris being used in some particularly high load situations.

Software
Time honoured software, with bespoke modifications and improvements powers the servers. UNIX installations include a web server derived from the popular Apache web server in conjunction with the powerful mySQL database server and qmail mail server.

Control Panel
This excellent and easy to use web based control panel is the front end to your account administration and management system. This feature allows us to run our business with great efficiency and pass the cost savings on to our customers.

Data Backup
Every server on the network runs a RAID based disk redundancy solution, should any of the primary disk drives fail, a secondary disk drive can take over the work load with no loss of availability. In addition, the London based UNIX servers are backed up over gigabit ethernet to a backup server in a separate data centre.

Network Details:

Telehouse East houses the UNIX web servers and high bandwidth co-located machines, connectivity to the server racks is presented on two diversely routed gigabit fibres from the carriers in Telehouse North offering 2000Mbit of redundant Internet bandwidth to the equipment.

Located in London's Docklands, Telehouse is the UK's leading neutral co-location facility and is home to Europe's main Internet hubs. With all major Internet backbones on site, bandwidth can be provided independently of teleco fibre and the associated costs.

The UNIX hosting services offer unrivalled connectivity from leading bandwidth providers, information about each can be found below:

UUNet/MCI Worldcom
UUNet, part of the MCI Worldcom group of companies boast one of the largest and best quality global IP networks in the world. Spanning more than 2,500 Points of Presence throughout North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim, Worldcom's network is able to provide high speed, reliable connectivity.

Avensys Networks
Avensys networks are a small UK Internet access provider with Points of Presence in London, Manchester and Sheffield. Avensys have an obsession with quality and reliability and are able to provide bespoke services.

LINX
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is the largest and most successful Internet exchange point in Europe with a world-class reputation for quality, performance and technical excellence. The UNIX servers have one hop access to 200Mbit of LINX bandwidth.

LoNAP
LoNAP is an independent peering point based in Telehouse London, where Internet Service Providers may exchange traffic without the cost of using commercial upstream services. The UNIX servers have one hop access to 200Mbit of LoNAP bandwidth.