Our Hosting Platform

Hosting Platform

• Apache 2 running in a load balanced, redundant cluster
• MySQL 5
  
• PHP 4 & 5
• Perl
• Python
• Ruby on Rails
• mod_rewrite
• Private IP addresses for use with SSL
• SuExec
• Choice of CGI or FastCGI

Email

• Advanced email filtering system combines spam filtering, virus scanning, anti-phishing technology, grey listing and automatic whitelisting.
  
• Easy to use webmail client. Features include: IMAP, MIME support, address book, folder maniupulation, message searching and spell checking, mutilingual
• Unlimited email alisases
• Domain wide mail forwarding
• Mail groups

Control Panel

• Feature-rich, custom-built control panel
• Simple DNS management
  
• Website visitation statistics using AWStats
• Account usage statistics: used network traffic, disk space utilisation, etc
• Database mangement using phpMyAdmin
• Ability to create different database users with different access levels.

Backups

A backup of all hosting accounts and email is performed every hour. We store 72 hourly backups, 7 daily backups and 3 weekly backups. Any of these backups can be retrieved upon request.

31 complete database backups are taken every night along with 7 days of real time binary logs. This allows point-in-time database recovery to be performed in the event of database failure or accidental modification of information.

All backups are stored on secondary storage devices that are separate to the primary storage devices.