Features / What we offer
We aim to provide very high quality hosting thats packed full of features and has the flexibility that the more technical person will appreciate.
Sun Cobalt RaQ
For stability and speed we use the Sun Cobalt RaQ.
GNU/Linux
Our platform is GNU/Linux, quite simply because theres nothing better.
Apache
It's the webserver chosen by the vast majority of hosting providers, and there's good reason, apache rocks. CGI is available, as are server-side includes (SSI).
PHP
We have PHP 4.3.3 installed, not your grannies installation though, we've gone mad and
installed no fewer than 26 extensions for your coding pleasure.
bcmath, bz2, ctype, curl, dio, exif, ftp, gd, iconv, imap, ldap, mbstring, mcrypt, mhash, mysql,
openssl, overload, pcre, posix, session, sockets, standard, tokenizer, xml, xslt and zlib
If anybody requests any other extensions we'll certainly consider them.
MySQL
We're running MySQL 3.23.56-Max, and we provide you with phpMyAdmin already installed to easily manage your database(s).
Shell Access (SSH)
We can provide shell accounts, with a shell account you can login to a linux
console securely via SSH to configure or make changes to your site.
We provide both POP and IMAP access to your email and can provide SMTP outgoing email if required.
Control Panel
From the powerful web based control panel you can configure your account and perform tasks such
as setting up mailing lists.
Connectivity
Our Internet connection is exceptionally good, boasting high redundancy and very low latency (Average network latency <20ms pan-European). Using only Cisco routers and switches our connection is multi-homed which ensures much greater reliability than getting connectivity from just one provider. Peering agreements with the majority of ISP's in the UK provides the optimum route for traffic in and out, removing uneccessary hops.