Hardware
Quite simply, our servers are provided by absolute UK-based experts and
housed in incredibly high-tech datacentres. We use top quality,
professional suppliers who only use high quality
PowerEdge servers offer a range of configurations to suit every need. To
customise your server click on the relevant Buy Now button above, or get in
touch to discuss your requirements.
Redundancy
As part of the service our suppliers keep hot-standby equipment ready in the
datacentre to be used in the event of a major failure of any server. This means
that if, for example, your server were to suffer a major hardware failure the
disks can be swapped into a spare chassis and the server can be back up and
running again very rapidly and with minimal disruption.
In addition to that, all our servers are equipped with RAID(1) disk mirroring
which means that in the event of a hard disk failure (the most common component
to fail) your server will just keep running, and technicians will be alerted so
that they can schedule a replacement at your earliest convenience.
Storage capacity
The servers shown above can house a maximum of two 750GByte disks in a RAID1
array. If you need more than 750GBtes of storage (and we do not allow non RAID
systems, so that is the limit) then please get in touch as we might be able to
help
Operating systems and Control Panel software
We offer Linux-based operating systems including Debian (our recommendation),
Fedora Core at no extra charge, or now offer RedHat Enterprise ES for an
additional £24.99/month.
We also offer Windows 2003 server (standard edition) for an additional £35.99/month.
If you do not want to have to administer the server manually then we would
strongly recommend a Control Panel to allow you to administer the server,
run domain, web & email hosting services and setup web sites /
email accounts via a Web based interface. Our recommended control panel is
cPanel/WHM (optionally with Fantastico) which is best installed on Centos or
Fedora Core, and costs an extra £29.99/month. If you require a Windows Server
system we do not currently offer any control panel ourselves, but would
recommend Plesk available from SWsoft.
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