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Our Web Server Technology

Point 1 : Fast, Reliable, Linux UK Servers - With Mirrored Back-up's

Here at ERB Web Hosting we understand the need for fast and reliable hardware.

All servers are "soak" tested for at least 7 days to ensure all hardware is fault free and to help avoid problems when placed in a live environment. During the "soak" period, we test the hardware with varying degrees of load on core components such as Memory, CPU and Hard Drives.

We take the security of our network, servers and data very seriously. We run only the latest Linux operating system; CentOS. All servers are optimised and secured further before being placed on our firewalled network, this ensures that our servers cannot be compimised before they are deployed.

In addition to our RAID1 configuration (should one drive fail, the server will continue to operate using its mirrored spare and notify our engineers that we need to replace the failed disk), all servers are connected to an internal backup network that is not reachable from the internet.

We backup each server in the early hours of the morning, several times each week. Should there be any unlikely issues with our RAID1 configuration, we are able to restore data to a server within minutes, should the need arise.

The software a server runs is very important, all our servers run is Redhat Linux which is an open source UNIX based operating system. It is considered the most reliable operating system for a server to run due to its high reliability, security and efficient use of system resources like memory and CPU power. It has many benefits over Windows systems which are resource hungry, unreliable and suffer from more security problems compared to Linux. Although our systems are UNIX based no knowledge of it is necessary as it is the same as using a Windows based server.

Apache - This is the web server program run on all of our servers, which delivers the web pages to the user’s browser. It is the worlds most popular and is used by 70% of web servers. This is down to its amazing performance and many features which make it the best in the world.

All our servers are UK based.