UK Web Hosting overview
We provide domain registration, UK web hosting and Web Design services. Our goal being solid, reliable web hosting at low costs
Our web hosting provides advanced features at low cost, allowing our customers to gain professional results without breaking the bank.
Our web design team specialize in creating custom designs for personal and community websites, as well as one-stop design, domain and hosting solutions for businesses.
UK Data Centre
Tektra Hosting's state of the art datacentre provides our customers with the speed, reliability and uptime they require. With the latest server technology and several backbone connections, Tektra Hosting ensures that your site will be available as much as possible.
Our datacentre is manned 24/7 and is in a secure location. Backups are taken daily and stored in a safe location away from the building. On-site security prevents any unauthorized accesses to our datacentre and its facilities. Our datacentre is growing all the time and allows us to provide for our customers with speed, efficiency and ease. Our datacenter is what allows Tektra Hosting to offer such a powerful service and stand out from the rest.
Strong Data Backup
Our network arrays operate RAID, a way of configuring a system so a disk can fail with no impact to data. As explained above we also operate our network arrays in mirrored pairs so a whole array can fail with no impact. Each array is also backed up each night to a separate backup cluster which is then written to tape and stored offsite.
Our backup procedure goes above and beyond the majority of web hosting companies.
100% Dell Web Servers
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 server's workload. For example, if one of our mail servers breaks down another server automatically comes online, with all the correct configuration, and takes over the work of the failed server. During this period no email is lost.
Hosting Infrastructure
Hosting Server Specification
- Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3.6GHz with 4MB Cache
- 4 GB SDRAM
- Dual 36 GB SCSI Drive (for the operating system)
- RAID Mirroring (for the operating system)
- Dual Power Supplies
- Dual Gigabit Network Adapters
100% Cisco Gigabit Network
Tektra 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 Enterprise Linux Platform
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.
Connectivity
We operate on a multi-homed network utilising BGP4 technology. Simply put, we have multiple connections to the Internet with different backbone providers, should any connection fail our other connections automatically take all the traffic. Not only does this mean that we are very unlikely to lose connectivity to the Internet, but it also means that traffic moving to and from our network can choose from a range of paths to get to its final destination. This means that we have been able to configure the network always to take the fastest paths.
