"A Service You Can Depend Upon"
Founded on a belief of making Internet web space and domain names available to customers at competitive rates, and backed by reliable and robust technology, Centrica Hosting has now become a market leading web hosting service.
The company was launched in 2004, using the latest online technolgy coupled with powerful server technology from Dell. Our services are designed to make web hosting accesable to everyone.
Centrica Hosting also brings the latest web site management tools and applications so that your entire web site hosting experience is efficient and professional in every aspect. We offer a whole host of bolt on tools to give your site the interactivity of that which would cost thousands. Whats more, you are in complete control of your account through a high tech control panel.
The Centrica Hosting data centre offers a secure, resilient environment for our web hosting platform. Along with our cutting edge server technology our data centre allows us to offer you our famous 100% uptime guarantee. Based in a secure facility the data centre is built to an N+1 specification so should any particular service fail e.g. electricity or air conditioning, another backup service automatically takes over the failed services job.
Cutting Edge Technology & Powerful Internet Application
Dual power feeds enter the building at different points and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) ensure that all power to the server area is clean and spike free, in the event of a power outage the UPS can take the entire data centre load for up to five minutes, however within 20 seconds our redundant generators are able to indefinitely take on the entire data centre load..
Qualified Technicians & Unparalleled Support
In our efforts to provide outstanding products as well as quality services, it our ultimate goal to establish on-going, long-term relationships with our clients. Excelling at offering qualified technicians, we make our highly advanced services available 24 hours a day without exception. Simply use our 24/7 support facility, and benefit from our online help documents.
Data Center and Network Operations
We use only Dell servers in our web hosting platform, utilising state-of-the-art technology we have built a web hosting platform that is second to none.Our platform is designed in such a way that if any server fails another server automatically and without delay takes over that servers workload. For example if one of our mail servers were to break down, another server would automatically come online, with all the correct configuration and take over the work of the failed server. In this period no email would be lost.
As well as this, all data is stored in two large network disk arrays, data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime.
Our current server specification is:
- Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3.4GHz with 2MB Cache
- 8 GB SDRAM
- Dual 136 GB SCSI Drive (for the operating system)
- RAID Mirroring (for the operating system)
- Dual Power Supplies
- Dual Gigabit Network Adapters
Centrica Hosting's network operates on industry leading network equipment from Cisco Systems, all our switches and routers are developed by Cisco. Our network is based on gigabit technology which means that it runs at a speed of 1000 Mb per second, most web hosting networks are limited to 100 Mb per second.
Our network also utilise's 100% CAT6 network cable, CAT6 cable contains four pairs of copper wire and unlike CAT5, utilise's all four pairs. CAT6 supports Gigabit (1000 Mbps) Ethernet and supports communications at more than twice the speed of CAT5e, the other popular standard for Gigabit Ethernet cabling.
Redhat is the leading provider of Linux open source software, for many years now Redhat Linux has been the number one choice for web hosting companies. Not just because of Redhats amazing scalability but also because of its track record as the most stable operating system available in the market today.
Our systems utilise the latest Redhat server technology to allow our servers to be continually up to date with Redhat system & security patches.
Unlike many of our competitors we run Redhat Enterprise Linux, the most stable release of Redhat Linux available and the only version that stays totally up to date with security patches.
Secure Hosting Architecture & Customer Satisfaction
While most control panels are vulnerable to unauthorised access and theft, site re-configuration, and site downtime, we use the industry's most secure hosting architecture known to man. The web hosting software we use is not only award-winning; it is also the only control panel solution that provides security through a Virtual Private File System.
Providing a simple, single access point to files and email options, including vacation messages and email forwarding, our system is ideal for all web site users. Over and above the norm, this technology makes it easy to manage a site's files, configuration and users, and additionally protects commercial and confidential customer data from unauthorised access and theft. As an example, site administrators can easily add new sub-domains, thereby managing multiple databases and greatly reducing the number of helpdesk calls received, which in turn improves customer satisfaction.
