What
equipment do we have and where is it?
Netpresto's servers and communications equipment are housed at
the Telehouse Data Centre in Docklands, London. Why?
Because Telehouse offers unrivalled security together with resilient
power supply. It is also the best place to peer with other ISPs
and has bandwidth available from many (if not all) of the providers
out there.
All
of our servers are intel based, dual processor machines with RAID
hard disks and controllers and UPS. This gives us optimum performance
as well as a very resilient hardware platform. We run Linux and
Apache web server on our servers because of it's robust, flexible
nature. This means that our servers have uptimes of months rather
than the days that some alternatives can offer. It also means
that we are able to install most of the latest versions of software
as they become available.
TECHNICAL
INFORMATION SPECIFICS
How
much bandwidth do we have?
Well the short answer is - always enough - because we constantly
monitor and evaluate our performance to ensure that we have adequate
resources to meet our customers demands. This question is one
that we are regularly asked but what really matters is how much
we have Vs how much we need to match demand. Is a 48 seater bus
better than a 12 seater? Answer - how many people want to get
on?
We have bags of bandwidth and ensure that we are always running
with spare capacity.
But
what does all this really mean to our customers?