We are pleased to announce our latest rack has been commissioned, with diverse 1000mbs network and is “tier 4 aligned”, the highest recognised datacentre standard in the industry, and offers N+N (aka 2N) redundancy and is used for our dedicated and shared customers. Needless to say the new rack benefits from our standard double […]
The team worked hard at the weekend adding a new R1soft backup server to further strengthen our backup solution. The new server adds a whopping 16TB of storage that also fails over to a redundant SAN. All linked to our dedicated and shared servers via 1000GBS internal network. The box is a 8 Disk […]
We have just completed a massive 32 core cpu custom magento cluster using the latest 12 Gen Dell Enterprise servers with Intel 330 series SSD drives. This was to help an existing customer who started getting 700 + concurrent users to their Magento store, they expect this traffic to double in the next month. We […]
Intel 330 Series SSD Drives After our early adoption of SSD drives for web servers we have learnt a lot, the hard way… Our Current SSD server fleet consists of Crucial, Various OCZ flavours, Samsung and now Intel. We have had excellent performance from Samsung (0 Fails), and terrible performance from Crucial (All 20 Crucial […]
We finally upgraded the server that our main site is hosted on last week. For far too long our own actual site was running a lower spec VPS spec machine from our original Data Centre. Ready for testing… Slid into place…
We are pleased to report another Magento cluster has gone live. This one runs 2 raided hot swap Dell Power edge boxes both with 256 GB OCZ x 2 in each box. Early reports are very positive. This combined with some of exclusive caching technologies has helped this worldwide brand keep at the very front […]
Had a bit of a busy week at the Data Centre, all thanks to Crucial and their SSD Drives. We run a high availability SSD cloud for magento and standard hosting customers. We have seen a high fail rate of all of our nodes with Crucial SSD drives that were less than six months old […]
We have finally taken delivery of the long awaited 12 generation dell shared servers this week. We have taken some pictures of the install. Dell have fitted these new gen servers with a nice shiny new case. Intial speed from the Hex core Cpu are very impressive. Powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 […]
We have just completed our second Magento/litepeed/Mysql Cluster. These all use 2 x 256Gb Samsung SSD Disks in each server with Raid1 failover. The performace of these clusters is staggering with the Samsung SSD disks being the cloud pleaser! Sequential Read: Up to 520MB/s Sequential Write: Up to 320MB/s Random Read: Up to 80000 IOPS […]
Last week we set up a dedicated dual CPU xeon running at 3.30 ghz with 16gb of ram and a Samsung SSD drive for a customer who wanted unmanaged Magento hosting. Things were fine until he needed constant support and it turned out had never managed any kind of server. Only issue was he refused […]