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• 17 Mar

  Guide to load balancing By Mackie Load balancing is a technology used in the dedicated hosting arena to spread work across a number of servers with the goal of increasing capacity, speeding up response times and avoiding downtime. As opposed to the traditional route of pointing traffic directly at a server’s IP, network traffic is directed to an IP on the load balancer. It is the responsibility of the load balancer to choose which server to forward this request to. There...

• 16 Mar

  UKFast Intelligent Backup By The Brigadier Performing regular server backups is a must for every business that uses online applications for email, databases, websites or ecommerce. Your business cannot afford to lose this vital information. UKFast's intelligent backup facility guarantees that all business-critical data is backed up right up to the moment catastrophe strikes, ready to serve again. UKFast managed backup features: Weekly full system state server backup Daily incremental server backup, including your system state Intelligent, burstable quota starting at...

• 15 Mar

  Approach information security like leading a group up a mountain By Mother Superior At UKFast we are firm believers that putting yourself out of your ‘comfort zone’ is essential to team and personal development. We are a company peopled by innovative, dynamic and passionate individuals who are constantly looking for challenges. For several years now the company has actively run team building and leadership exercises in Snowdonia with a mind to testing each other in a very different environment from the sterile environment of our datacentres and support...

• 14 Mar

  What makes technical support great? By The Brigadier The way that support is provided to a client can be separated into the speed and ease with which dedicated server queries are detected by the hosting company or reported by the customer; and the speed and ease with which these queries are resolved. I’ll tackle the point of detection and reporting first. It’s an important point to reiterate at this point – we’re talking about speed AND ease. The faster the query is detected,...

• 13 Mar

  What is Information Security? By Mackie Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction. Information security is concerned with ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data regardless of the form the data may take: electronic, print, or other forms – in relation to the risks or threats posed to that data ‘asset’. So in English what does this mean to specific businesses and how can they make sure that they are...

• 13 Mar

  Achieving solution uptime By The Brigadier Load balancing? Replication? Failover? Multiple datacentres? Dedicated virtualisation? Clustering? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes! But definitely not everything every time. I suppose the second challenge in providing the 100% uptime solution is knowing which technology is best to use and in which circumstance. At UKFast we are very lucky. We have hugely qualified (or should I say certified) Microsoft and Red Hat engineers, who have the industry knowledge and experience to architect solutions to...

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