Network

Managed Dedicated Servers, shared: Windows hosting, PHP hosting, and Ecommerce hosting are hosted on the PIPEX Network

PIPEX Network:

a powerful tier 1 network with over 100 points of presence (PoPs) across the UK.   Based on proven technologies including ATM and MPLS, the network utilises high capacity optical fibre and microwave links.

PIPEX occupies three locations in London Docklands, which provide our connection to other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) via the London Internet Exchange (LINX) or other Internet transit providers in Europe and North America.  Each of our data centres has a choice of targeting any one of the three London sites for access to the Internet ensuring that connectivity to your web site is always maintained.

Server Specification (shared accounts) and security

Dell servers with Linux or Windows 2003 operating systems, all of which have dual Intel Pentium Xeon processors, dual 100Mbit Ethernet adapters and a minimum of 2 gigabytes of memory.  Storage is spread across multiple Ultra 160 SCSI hard disk drives using Adaptec RAID controllers.

Servers run 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.  Each server also has a replication partner which can take over its workload in the event of a problem or during planned maintenance.  In addition, data on our servers is backed up.

The network is protected by multiple firewalls; protecting your website from malicious attacks, viruses and trojans.

London Hosting Centre situated in the heart of London's Docklands (E14):

All servers are connected to the Internet using a fully redundant network which provides excellent uptime. The features include Juniper routing hardware, HP switching hardware, 100% infrastructure uptime SLA, 10+ gbps external connectivity, diverse DWDM fibre ring, dual redundant gigabit feeds to each rack, and peers including Microsoft, Nildram, Bulldog, Cogent, NTL, Claranet, Google, HE, Akamai, the BBC, and hundreds more...

Minimum Server Specification and security

Servers use HP BladeSystems for high availability and stability. Intel and AMD processors are used, drives use SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) with RAID and daily backups.

Data centre

features an exceptionally highly specified infrastructure is purpose designed and built which includes raised flooring, advanced physical security, 24/7 on site engineers, and backup power and UPS.