LGwebs.co.uk | Hosting & domains --------------------------------- If you buy the 1GBP option you get a free .co.uk domain to... --------------------------------- ABOUT US History The company provides basic, cheap, and reliable website hosting Using only the highest quality servers based in the United Kingdom Current Facilities The data centre offers a secure, resilient environment for our web hosting platform Based in a secure facility the data centre is built to an N+1 specification, so that if any particular service fails - e.g. electricity or air conditioning - another backup service automatically takes over the failed service's job Power Dual power feeds enter the building at different points and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) ensure that all power to the server area is clean and spike free In the event of a power outage the UPS can take the entire data centre load for up to five minutes However within 20 seconds our redundant generators are able to indefinitely take on the entire data centre load Security The data centre is manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so that if anything goes wrong engineers can respond quickly and effectively to the problem Access to the data centre is via a master access list using Smart Card authentication Access to the data centre is by authorisation only CCTV operates throughout the facility Cooling & Fire Suppression The temperature of the data centre is kept at a steady 20oC to allow optimum equipment performance Our fire detection system monitors the room for any sign of fire and allows operators to respond to such a situation using a variety of fire suppression techniques Technology 100% Dell Servers We use only Dell servers in our website hosting platform Utilising state-of-the-art technology we have built a web hosting platform that is second to none Our platform is designed in such a way that if any server fails another server automatically and without delay takes over that server's workload For example, if one of our mail servers breaks down another server automatically comes online, with all the correct configuration, and takes over the work of the failed server During this period no email is lost As well as this, all data is stored in two large network disk arrays Data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime Website Hosting Infrastructure The following diagram represents the website hosting infrastructure Server Specification Our current server specification is : Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3.4GHz with 2MB Cache 8 GB RAM Dual 136 GB SCSI Drive (for the operating system) RAID Mirroring (for the operating system) Dual Power Supplies Dual Gigabit Network Adapters 100% Cisco Gigabit Network The network operates on industry-leading network equipment from Cisco Systems All our switches and routers are developed by Cisco Our network is based on gigabit technology, which means that it runs at a speed of 1000 Mb per second - most web hosting networks are limited to 100 Mb per second Our network also utilises 100% CAT6 network cable, which contains four pairs of copper wire and, unlike CAT5, utilises all four pairs CAT6 supports Gigabit (1000 Mbps) Ethernet and supports communications at more than twice the speed of CAT5e, which is the other popular standard for Gigabit Ethernet cabling Software Redhat Linux Platform Redhat is the leading provider of Linux open source software For many years now Redhat Linux has been the number one choice for website hosting companies, not just because of Redhat's amazing scalability but also because of its track record as the most stable operating system available in the market today Our systems utilise the latest Redhat server technology to allow our servers to be continually up to date with Redhat system & security patches Unlike many of our competitors we run Redhat Enterprise Linux, the most stable release of Redhat Linux available and the only version that keeps completely up to date with security patches MySQL 5 MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs and libraries MySQL v5.0.26 Perl, PHP4 & PHP 5, Ruby, Python, Zend, Ghostscript, and ImageMagick Full support including the most commonly used modules for Perl, PHP and Python Perl v5.8.5 with Crypt::SSLeay module v0.51 PHP v4.4.7 with Zend Optimiser v3.3.0 and PHP v5.2.4 Python v2.3.4 ImageMagick v6.3.4 Sun ONE ASP (Chili!Soft ASP) Sun ONE ASP (Chili!Soft ASP) allows you to use the Microsoft ASP programming launguage on Linux All standard Apache modules are installed on the web servers, including mod_rewrite These are the correct versions as at 15 September 2007, for the latest versions please see the Control Panel demonstration Connectivity Through use of the above facilities, technology, infrastructure, network, and software we provide one of the most stable and reliable website hosting platforms you will find Performance Uptime We aim for 99.99% uptime, however we do need to take the servers offline for maintenance, replacement, or upgrade occasionally This is always scheduled for overnight, in the UK. 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