Our Data Centre

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Category: Technical

The team at Host Junction always strive to maintain flexibility not only for ourselves but more importantly for our clients, to this end we regularly assess our collective infrastructure needs to ensure that Host Junction's server technology is located in state-of-the-art facilities, and managed by expert B2B providers who understand the business and have standards of service and quality similar to our own. 

Many years ago Host Junction identified the need to minimise, insofar as is practically possible, the risk to business continuity from having it's data centre located in London and therefore took the prudent measure to only partner with service providers who echoed this ethic.  Our infrastructure is located in Derby within the data centre of one of the UK's biggest and award-winning hosting providers.

Power Supply and Backup

Each of our racks have two independent power feeds, each fed from two diverse connections to the national grid.  Should one or both of these feeds fail 4 x 300kVA Riello UPS (N+1) battery backup systems will cover immediate power requirements. All power to the cabinets is supplied via the UPS to maintain clean supply to the servers.

If mains power is not restored within 10 seconds 3 x N+1 diesel powered generators will start providing full continuous power to the data centre. Spare fuel for the generators is stored on-site and contracts are in place with fuel companies to deliver continuous emergency fuel for a virtually unlimited amount of time.

Fire Suppression

Fire protection is provided by the FM200 Fire Suppression System which fills the sealed data centre with gas to extinguish any fire quickly without the use of water and without damage to any equipment.

Climate Control

The data centre is fully climate controlled with N+1 Stultz DX Cybercool Air Conditioning Systems. The system monitors and controls the temperature and humidity levels.

Drip sensors located below floor monitor for any leaks in the system. Cold air is forced underneath raised flooring into the bottom of each server rack, and vacuumed out of the top providing maximum cooling efficiency. The position of each server rack/apparatus is calculated by a dedicated deployment team to further optimise cooling efficiency.

Server Cabinets

46u high 1500mm wide x 1000mm deep, cable management system and 80% mesh doors. Cabinets are kept locked at all times.

Security

CCTV: The data centre is monitored by cctv both externally and internally. All CCTV images are recorded and stored for 3 months.
Secure Fence
The building is surrounded by a 8ft perimeter fence. Gates are locked outside of normal business hours.
Secure Fob Access
There are two locking doors to go through for access to each of the separate data halls within the data centre. These are locked and can only be opened using Secure Fobs which are only held by named staff.

Network Connectivity

Host Junction operates a multi-homed network utilising BGP4 technology. Simply put, we have multiple connections to the Internet with different backbone providers; should any connection fail our other connections automatically take all the traffic. Each connection is terminated to redundant cross connected routers and we have ensured that multiple redundant power suppliers and network cards are installed in each piece of equipment in the cluster.

Not only does this mean that we are very unlikely to lose connectivity to the Internet, but it also means that traffic moving to and from our network can choose from a range of paths to get to its final destination. This means that we have been able to configure the network always to take the fastest paths.

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