Our Infrastrucure
Our infrastructure was built from the ground up to provide hosting services for mission critical websites and applications that require high levels of availability, security and performance. With our high-end hardware, top-tier connectivity, ultra-fast storage and superior CloudCluster™ technology bundled with our fantastic support you are assured a superb service thoughout.
Geographically Diverse Data Centers
We operate multiple geographically diverse data centers, serving data from the nearest CloudCluster™ to you while providing maximum redundancy. Our main facility is based in Manchester, UK and a second facility in London, UK with global servers over in Newark, NJ, USA. Global diversity provides performance and reliability benefits that 'shared hosting' or 'dedicated hosting' just can't match.
Each data center is designed to meet or exceed N+1 specification with redundanct connectivity, power and fire suppression.
CloudCluster™ Technology
Our innovative CloudCluster™ technology is a convergence of Clustering and Virtualisation that offers the benefits of both, with no drawbacks. Conventionally, as your website grows in size you'll need more processing power, memory and bandwidth that would require potentially moving to a dedicated server - but then it's up to you to manage it. We think differently.
Our CloudCluster™ is scalable allowing you to upgrade your hosting package at the click of a button, without downtime. In addition because of our extensive use of Virtualisation it's not only more secure but easier for us to deploy more nodes increasing hardware utilisation, lowering costs and providing a faster more stable service to you.
SquareManaged DNS™
As hosting experts we conduct a number of technical research projects in order to find new ways to protect your hosted applications from downtime. Our research shows that DNS is absolutly critical to keeping your website and e-mail services online. SquareManaged DNS™ is a propritery technology that delivers DNS services from 4 globally managed dedicated DNS servers so you do not have to worry about slow DNS resolution or DNS downtime.
HP G6 Servers - performance, energy efficiency and high density
All nodes run on HP G6 hardware, usually DL360's which offer a fantastic blend of high performance, high density and reliability which is perfectly suited to our hosting platform. The G6 series is designed to be completly energy efficient which is enhanced by our virtualisation technology allowing us to meet our Carbon Neutral requirements.
Cisco next-generation multi-gigabit network
Our core network is based around Cisco next-generation technology which provides a range of advanced security features and high performance to improve security and network capacity.