Background:
We have been providing web hosting solutions since 2004. Our goal was to provide simple webhosting solutions for the everday consumer.
Our infrustructure is currently hosting in a datacenter in the UK due to the high costs of bandwidth in South Africa.
At this stage it is not viable to move our servers locally, however, wewill be going down that road as soon as the bandwidth costs are low enough for us to still provide affordable web hosting solutions.
 

Shared Hosting Platform:
The unique architecture of our hosting platform brings numerous benefits to our customers, including speed, reliability and security.

We use predominantly Dell servers with FreeBSD 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.

Every server on our network runs 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 to our Storagetek Timberwolf DLT tape library with tapes being stored off site.

Our Network:
As part of the PIPEX Group, we are part of 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 utlises 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.

As part of a tier 1 network provider we are able to offer a unqiue level of network capacity and peformance as well as our industry leading 100% uptime guarantee.