Web Server / Email Administration

What does web server administration cover? Simply put, it is easier to state what it does not cover. Web server administration does NOT include web content or web design work. All other facets of the web server are included under our managed product line. Our administrators will log into your dedicated server on a scheduled basis to perform operating system maintenance that will include upgrades and/or install patches to your current applications, and monitor OS resource utilization, CPU usage, memory utilization, disk space, and log rotation (if applicable). Our administrators will also configure your web server, set permissions, create directories, give instructions on uploading and monitor the web server 24/7/365. Our job is to configure and maintain the web server, your job is to design the site and upload the content.

Have you built your own mail server and now spend all your time attempting to maintain it? Allow our mail experts to free your time and use their talents to their best efforts. Our technicians have years of experience in qmail, sendmail, slmail, Imail, Exchange, Mailmax and others. Allow our technicians to monitor your email box and to assist your users/customers when problems arise. We have hundreds of corporate email servers onsite and the experience of managing most of them. Our email administrators can assist you in selecting a mail server to fulfill your needs, implementing the mail server, maintaining the daily users, setting mail policies, controlling spam, and monitoring your mail servers for maximum uptime. Email is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. Get a managed email server and forget about email outages.

WebHosting UK recommends 5 hours of Web Server / Email Server Administration per server per month for a fully managed environment. Please click here to contact sales for more information.

VPN / Network Administration

In the new world of business networking, businesses can rely on VPN technology to utilize the Internet as their secure networking backbone. A VPN offers significant savings on communications costs while allowing your business to tap into a reliable network. VPNs can connect multiple offices, remote users, business partners, and clients all through the Internet. VPN solutions include hardware, software, firewall to firewall, router to router, concentrators, remote access, LAN-to-LAN, and extranets. Whether you’re looking to exchange confidential data between your company and other businesses, create multi-site access to corporate dedicated servers and databases, or simply protect communications with your vendors and employees, WebHosting UK can develop a VPN solution for you.

Even the most seasoned veteran needs networking assistance from time to time and WebHosting UK is here to assist you with our Cisco Certified Administrators. Need assistance with routers, firewalls, load balancers, backend networks, network configurations, VLANs, subnetting, static routing and network traffic monitoring? Allow our network administrators to design a network or revamp your current network to meet your needs. Our experts are available per hour or per project. Click here to contact an account executive now to receive a free networking consultation and quote.

Application Development

Looking for a hosting solution including hardware, software, network administration, OS administration, monitoring, application development and support? Welcome to WebHosting UK. WebHosting UK has developers on staff with extensive experience developing web-based applications. Whether you are looking to sell goods and services online with a custom e-commerce application, or you need a complete turnkey solution for your business, our application development department can help. In addition, WebHosting UK has partnered with an extensive number of third party application developers. Our partner program has created a vast network of experienced companies to fit almost any budget and requirement. Our partners range from small boutique shops specializing in custom or commercial application development to large enterprise development shops delivering complete enterprise infrastructure solutions. Our partnership program requires a stringent screening process to eliminate “fly by night” and unqualified application developers. Our sales engineers are available to discuss your needs and to assist in matching your requirements to either our application development department or our partners. By either utilizing our partnership program or our internal developers, our customers receive the benefits of “best in class” expertise. WebHosting UK is a world class hosting company with hardware, networking and administrative expertise coupled with our partners who are world class application development companies with developmental and integration expertise. Between WebHosting UK ’s internal application development department and our partners, no project is too large or too small for WebHosting UK to fulfill.

Advanced Dedicated Server Monitoring

WebHosting UK can monitor your apache linux windows web servers with our state-of-the-art server monitoring system. Our Internal and external systems can monitor up to 16 different types of services (no software needed) on your server 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in our Network Operations Center (NOC). Our internal monitoring system resides on a private network range within the datacenter so no security issues arise from allowing access through firewalls. Our external monitoring server monitors services over the web, much like your customers or employees, to troubleshoot server level problems vs. general internet routing problems. If you have a need for ultimate monitoring, clients are loaded that will monitor CPU usage, CPU temp, Ram Usage, Disk Space, Oracle databases, etc. All monitoring statistics and information are available online through our dedicated customer portal. For additional fees, WebHosting UK can also custom monitor your server at the application level if you need such attention. Advanced server monitoring ensures your linux windows dedicated server has maximum uptime.

Intrusion Detection

WebHosting UK has partnered with 2 outside companies to provide intrusion detection services for your services. We have chosen to outsource this service because most corporate entities seeking instruction detection need third party intrusion detection audits. We can assist you in selecting an intrusion detection company that can fulfill all your needs. As systems grow and become more complex, intrusion detection becomes a staple of a successful system. Intrusion detection is designed to monitor all traffic patterns over time to find potential known hacking attempts along with subtle changes in hacker traffic. By utilizing the latest sniffing techniques and allowing experts in intrusion detection to monitor your systems, you can insure against potential hacks of your internal infrastructure.

Dedicated Server Storage Solutions

WebHosting UK has several managed storage options available for the enterprise dedicated server hosting clients. Our managed dedicated server hosting storage solutions range in price and complexity and are proven to deliver top quality storage at aggressive pricing.

EMC SAN Storage

WebHosting UK is excited to announce the most recent addition of our EMC Symmetrix 8730 with over 35 terabytes of available storage. To compliment the EMC 8730, WebHosting UK has also added an EMC Connectrix Fiber Switch with 32 available ports for true SAN architecture. Our EMC managed storage solution offers enterprise storage solutions with intense speed and high availability at incredible pricing. Our EMC managed dedicated server storage product is the most aggressively priced SAN storage in the marketplace. We have years of experience with the complete EMC line and we offer a host of direct disk, disk to disk copy, cold backup, and hot backup options for data recovery and database replication. Call our account executives today to receive more information and aggressive pricing on our EMC managed SAN storage.

Network Appliance

Outgrown those rack mount disk arrays, but not quite ready for the EMC? WebHosting UK can assist your company’s growth with our Network Appliance. This cost effective network attached storage array can store up to half a terabyte of information while still performing the raid redundancies and snapshot functionality that has proven so popular among Network Appliance users. Affectionately know as “The Toaster,” it can provide you with cost effective storage at affordable pricing.

Rack Mount Disk Arrays

Need loads of disk space and/or raid redundancy? WebHosting UK offers 19 inch rack mount disk arrays in 8, 10, and 14 slot models. Utilizing the latest 73GB SCSI drives, you can store up to a terabyte in a 4U rack mount array or switch to IDE and store up to 2.8 terabytes in a single 4U array. Our arrays from JMI and Casestor offer both IDE and SCSI Backplanes with optional built in controllers. The arrays are highly cost effective for clients seeking the most cost effective means available on storage. Click here to contact an account executive and inquire about the cost of our custom designed rack mount storage array.

Backup Solutions

To secure data from potential loss, WebHosting UK offers a host of backup solutions for our Datacenters clients.

Disk to Disk Onsite

For high speed, mission critical, enterprise disk to disk backup, WebHosting UK offers data storage on our EMC Symmetrix 8730 with 35 Terabytes of SAN storage via Web Hosting UK Datacenter backup solutions. This solution allows for fast recovery of data over a private network with raid level redundancy and 100% uptime availability. Our EMC disk to disk storage product is aggressively priced and easy to use for developers or enterprise clients seeking to minimize data loss. All data stored in the EMC also has the capability to backup to our L180 tape library giving enterprise clients a complete high availability backup solution.

Disk to Disk Offsite

For enterprise level data replication, WebHosting UK is proud to offer EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Data Mobility (SRDF/DM). SRDF enables businesses to easily replicate or move data from one Symmetrix information storage system to another without the use of dedicated servers. It provides platform-independent capabilities in multiple environments and is designed to assist users in meeting their e-business needs. Traditional data replication methods require dedicated server resources that are consumed in the management of everyday production processing and management of the dedicated server storage resources. Regular increases in dedicated server storage capacity decrease server bandwidth, which may result in production performance degradation. Users are left with the option of ongoing dedicated server acquisition to satisfy growing business needs. SRDF/DM eliminates the need for additional dedicated server purchases by offloading the replication process.

For smaller enterprise clients, WebHosting UK has partnered with our offsite tape storage facility to offer secure disk to disk storage over VPN or direct point to point connectivity. Our partner will backup your integral data to their SAN array located within their storage bunker. This can be achieved via a VPN connection over the web or from a point to point connection from our datacenter to the server storage bunker directly. This type of server storage allows for maximum security of data and fast disk to disk restoration from anywhere in the world. Backup schedules are custom designed for each customer and you only pay for the amount of space you backup during the month. The system is secure and offers the latest in high speed availability.

Disk to Tape

WebHosting UK offers stand alone direct attached DLT systems, along with a network attached tape systems including a Legato Tape backup solution (AIT) with a 40 bay tape library and Web Hosting UK Datacenter Tape backup solution (DLT) connected to a Sun L180 tape array.

WebHosting UK offers stand alone direct attached DLT systems for customers that need maximum security and customer owned media. Our technicians will manually rotate your tapes once you log into our online portal and fill out our automated reminder system. This system emails our NOC technicians when a tape rotation is due and must be acknowledge once the tape has been physically rotated. Our guarantee is simple, if we miss your manual tape rotation; your tape rotation service is free for the month.

The Legato Tape backup system is mounted to our internal network on a private IP scheme for all services located at WebHosting UK. This system is a cost effective shared tape system with high security. Our tapes are kept in a secure private suite and are rotated offsite when not in the tape robotic library. The Legato system can backup data according to the service you request at specified intervals (daily, weekly, monthly) and log into your dedicated server twice monthly to view disk space and verify data integrity. A small client loaded on the dedicated server allows the end user to restore at any moment by clicking on files and restore. Our NOC staff is available 24/7/365 for any questions concerning backup and restore.

Our enterprise tape backup system utilizes Web Hosting UK Datacenter and requires secondary NIC cards in each web server to connect to our private network. Our robotic tape library holds over 180 Ultrium DLT tapes with terabytes of capacity and is driven by multiple Sun 420r servers. The sky is the limit on options you may select. Cost effective tape backups can be achieved by sharing media with other clients (it’s secure of course) or you can purchase your own tape media to place into our robotic library. Either way, the outcome produces a reliable tape arching system. Offsite tape storage is available coupled with disaster recovery options that allow for cold/hot practice restores. Our ORBIT system also provides a secure online customer portal that allows the customer to perform backup and recovery from the web. Click here to schedule a meeting with a sales engineer to discuss all options available for tape storage.

Offsite Tape Storage

WebHosting UK has partnered with our offsite tape storage facility (we can’t tell you their name for security reasons - sign up and you will learn more) to offer secure offsite tape storage. Offsite tape rotation is available daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. WebHosting UK has offsite tape storage plans for up to 30 years.

Dedicated Server Disaster Recovery

After September 11, 2001, the world changed a bit, and WebHosting UK has created several dedicated server disaster recovery options to fit any need. The hidden secret to dedicated server disaster recovery is simple; cost vs downtime. We have plans that range from simple tape backup to multiple sites distributed across remote geographical sites. How much should you spend on dedicated server disaster recovery? Let our sales engineers and administrators sit down and discuss the options and weigh the costs. Factors such as cost, time to recovery, downtime, political unrest, geographical location, seasonal weather, customer proximity, federal regulations, state regulations, legal liability, due diligence, software licensing issues, infrastructure design, corporate headquarter location, international law, are just a few examples. Below are just a few of the options we have available from the most cost effective to the most redundant possible.

* Tape backup
* Offsite tape backup
* Disk to disk backup
* Offsite disk backup
* Active/Passive failover sites domestic
* Active/Passive failover site internationally
* Active/Active failover sites domestic
* Active/Active failover sites internationally
* Disaster recovery of office space for employees

WebHosting UK has experience in all disaster recovery options listed above, and we can assist you in creating a program that will fit your need and budget.

Dedicated Server Remote Backup

WebHosting UK can assist your company in data retention and disaster recovery by backing up crucial data from your location to our centralized robotic tape library system located inside our tier 1 datacenter environment. WebHosting UK currently uses Veritas Datacenter to backup all customers locally and remotely into a centralized Sun L180 robotic tape library that houses 180 high speed DLT tapes with six DLT tape machines. Connection from your office to the tape library located inside our datacenter can occur via VPN over the web or via direct point to point loops from your location to ours (T1, T3, and OC3 available). Just load the Veritas client on your servers and desktops and point and click the files you want to backup. Our backup administrators will manage your backup solution remotely from our NOC located in Dallas Texas. You will be notified daily of the success or failure of all backup procedures. Remote tape backup is an extremely cost effective disaster recovery tool to store critical data safely and securely offsite. Join the hundreds of other customers remotely backing up data to WebHosting UK and sign up today. Data is stored on DLT media that can be owned by WebHosting UK or by the customer.