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Kaweb invest in new hardware and sister DC

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Huw Ramsay
Technical Director

Hosting is the back bone of our Digital services, it was one of the first things we invested in back in the 90's after being let down so much by a couple of reputable UK hosting brands, who were offering cheap but slow and unreliable hosting with overseas support.

Hosting has grown organically for us as we invested ad-hoc in hardware, starting with just a few bare metal servers before virtualisation really took off through to a full cabinet of servers running any number of virtual machines.

In more recent years we have moved towards clustered solutions for our higher risk customers and our own VPS hosting platforms which are helping us to normalise hardware failures and maintain better uptime and peace of mind for our customers.

(Paul, our MD, who is still very hands on with this aspect of our business, is pictured perched on some of the new hardware as it was arriving at our offices).

Moving forward with further investment that takes our redundancy and disaster recovery offerings to the next level we are extremely happy to announce that despite recent global events we are now open for business in a sister data centre in Welwyn Garden City, which, just like Enfield is also top notch Tier III facility. 

This investment brings with it powerful AMD EPYC processors, the ability for us to offer secure off-site backups, and synchronous replication of entire virtual machines to a second geographic location for disaster recovery and maintenance.

VIRTUS: Enfield

  • Over 2,900m² technical data centre space, delivering 4.2MW.

  • Highly secure site operating 'defence-in-depth' approach to security; 24/7 on-site security team, protecting your IT infrastructure is our highest priority.

  • Incorporates real-time monitoring dashboards, self-service tools for customers to use either remotely, or in one of our dedicated customer offices, kitchen or touchdown areas that are designed into the facility.

  • The facility is carrier neutral and provides access to a wide choice of Tier I and Tier II carriers, and on-ramp access to all major cloud and connectivity platforms.

COLT: London North - Welwyn Garden City

  • Over 12,500m² of secure and flexible space providing market leading services.

  • State-of-the art carrier neutral facility situated just 30 minutes train journey north of London’s Kings Cross station. The data centre offers industry leading power efficiency within discreet space with dedicated mechanical and engineering equipment for each customer.

  • Space and power can be scaled to meet your business critical needs with flexible options for power density and resilience.

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