Hosting Technical Specification

Specification

Network / Connectivity

• Cisco network using the latest switching equipment
• Experienced engineers monitor the service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Bandwidth

• 400 Mb/s of Internet connectivity
• Provided by two companies, Telewest and Cable & Wireless
• 2 lines are routed separately into the building for extra reliability
• Bandwidth can burst up to more than 1GB/s instantly at the flick of a switch.

Server Hardware & Software

• Rack-optimised Dell servers (Dell 1550 Server Rack)
• Technology standardised on all machines.
• Latest Microsoft / Redhat Linux OS and Apache web-server including support for Perl & PHP scripting or ASP ODBC
• Envisage™ shared hosting platform (Business Pack only) - multiple high-performance web-server hosting.
  Envisage™ designed to keep all sites on-line all the time - always fully operational, even in the event of a server failure.

Envisage Characteristics (Business Site only)

• Network firewall
• Internal firewall
• Load balancers
• Redundant web-servers
• Network storage
• Disc Backup

Security

• Advanced Fire Suppression Systems - Data center filled with Halon gas in the event of a fire.
• £1M Denco Environmental Climate Control
• Back-up generators
• APC Unintrupted Power Supply
• CCTV covering all areas of the data center, access systems and security guard

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Data Centre

Grow hosting services are delivered in partnership with the largest provider of web hosting on the Microsoft platform in Europe - over 500,000 virtual servers handling over 3 million e-mails every day on thousands of servers in a state-of-the-art datacenter in Gloucester.

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