The hosting platform

The original technical description focused on continuity: server workloads, stored data and network connections were arranged to reduce single points of failure.

Server redundancy

The platform was described as a group of servers able to hand work to another machine if one failed. Mail services were used as the example: another server could take over with the same configuration while messages remained available.

Synchronised storage

Website data was stored across two network disk arrays and synchronised between them. The surviving array was intended to continue serving data if the other became unavailable.

Linux and gigabit networking

The service described an enterprise Linux platform maintained with system and security updates, connected through gigabit network equipment and CAT6 cabling.

These details describe the former platform and should not be read as a specification of infrastructure operating today.