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Co-Location is the location of servers alongside
appropriate resources which support them.
The key elements of co-location are -
- Physical Environment
- Electrical Environment
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- Bandwidth Supply
- Supporting Service
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EQSN locates all customer servers in Either Glasgow or Edinburgh
data-centres. These are the two highest grade data-centres available
in Scotland. This offers our clients a choice of location and significant
additional resilience.
Both the Glasgow and Edinburgh locations offer -
- 24 hour a day manned security.
- Surveillance cameras.
- Access by appointment.
- Internal restricted movement .
- Controlled temperature environment.
- Regulated humidity.
- Fire Protection systems design for Computer environments.
- Power feeds for two independent phases.
- Battery backup for 15 minutes using Chloride UPS systems.
- External generators. Capable of being refuelled during continuous
use.
- Provisioned by telecommunication facilities from multiple
Telcos, including BT, Thus, NTL, Cable & Wireless.
- The environments have sophisticated environmental controls
- The site is secure with, CCTV cameras, 24 hour manned security,
robust security policy.
- Telecoms from a number of suppliers, connectivity resilience,
Internet exchange (WorldIX).
- Power from a dedicated sub-station. multiplegenerators, battery
backup.
- Monitoring of hardware and software 24x7, alarms to key staff.
Alarms sent to our technical support staff as well as any nominated
client staff.
- Bandwidth is open-ended provision on demand, you only pay
for what you use. With enough provision to ensure sufficient
availability when it's needed.
- Support skills in Unix Windows NT4/2000, Oracle, E-mail, web
servers and networking support.
If you are currently selecting a hosting partner, why not compare
us with our competitors using the following table:
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EQSN |
Competitor |
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Purpose Built Data Centres
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YES
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Temperature monitoring and control
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YES
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Humidity monitoring and control
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YES
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Air-Flow monitoring and control
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YES
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Fire Detection & Suppression
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YES
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Water ingress detection
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YES
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CCTV Security
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YES
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24 Hour Manned security
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YES
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24 hour Access
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YES
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Internal restricted access
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YES
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Multiple Telecoms providers
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YES
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Part of a major Internet Exchange
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YES
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Dedicated sub-station power supply
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YES
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Battery Backup for entire facility
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YES
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Generators for continuous supply
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YES
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Sophisticated power monitoring & automatic failover
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YES
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24 hour software monitoring
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YES
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Manual monitoring & reviews
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YES
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Monitoring of;
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Hardware
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YES
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Operating System
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YES
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HTTP
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YES
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SMTP
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YES
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LAN
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YES
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WAN
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YES
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Database
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YES
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24 hour SMS & E-mail alarms
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YES
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24 hour monitoring/support available
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YES
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Bandwidth on demand
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YES
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Skills in;
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NT/2000
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YES
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Unix
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YES
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Oracle
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YES
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SQL
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YES
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Email tools
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YES
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Web Server tools
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YES
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Networking
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YES
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Backup Daily
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YES
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Offsite Media Storage
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YES |
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Recovery Backup daily
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YES
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Service Level Agreement
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YES
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