Professional Hosting Plans - Server Specification

What type of hardware do we use?

All our new webservers abide by the following minimum requirements.

Dual Pentium 4 XEON 3.2Ghz
4GB ECC RAM
Ultra 3 Cheetah SCSI Hard Drives
100Mb Full Duplex Network Adapter

Web Server Software

All new Professional hosting plans are created on the latest Windows 2003 servers, however Windows 2000 servers are also available on request.

Windows 2003 Web Server Software

The following is a list of standard software for all Windows 2003 Professional web servers.

Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft .net FrameWork 1.1 SP1 & 2.0 (Default is 1.1)
Microsoft XML 4.0 SP2 Core Services
Microsoft SOAP 3.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.1 SP1
DeepMetrix LiveStats XSP V8
PHP V5
IPSwitch WS FTP Server V5
ActiveState ActivePerl V5.8
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Extensions
Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition
Our Standard set of commercial COM Objects.

All new Professional hosting plans are created on the latest Windows 2000 servers.

Windows 2000 Web Server Software

Professional plans can also be placed on our Windows 200 servers if Windows 2003 is not supported or you require .net 1.0.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (Service Pack 3) + Various Security Patches
Microsoft .net FrameWork 1.0 (SP2) & 1.1
Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit Server Controls 1.0 + Device Updates
Microsoft XML 4.0 SP2 Core Services
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.1 SP1
DeepMetrix LiveStats XSP V8
IPSwitch WS FTP Server V5
ActiveState ActivePerl V5.6
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Extensions
Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition
Our Standard set of commercial COM Objects.

EMail Server Software

Mail servers are used by all hosting plans, these details are not specific to the Professional range. All mail servers are running IceWarp Merak V8.5.

Microsoft SQLServer Software

Database servers are used by all hosting plans, these details are not specific to the Corporate range. All Database servers are running Microsoft SQLServer 2000 SP3 or Microsoft SQLServer 7.0 SP4.

MySQL Database Software

Database servers are used by all hosting plans, these details are not specific to the Corporate range. All mysql servers are running MySQL 4.0.16.