Datacenter & Server Info :: LiquidSix Hosting

UK Datacenter Details
Manchester

Our main prescience is in the UK, it is where we are based and we host our own websites. As of April 2009, all of our UK servers are now based in a brand new datacenter in Manchester. It was completed in March 2009 and has all the features that you would expect from a modern datacenter:

N+1 UPS Protection
N+1 Downflow Cooling
Dedicated 11Kv substation on-site
Full generator backup, with several days on-site fuel storage
24-hour monitored and recorded CCTV security
20Gbps resilient network ring linking the site to key datacentres in Manchester and London

US Datacenter Details
Dallas, Texas

Our secondary prescience is in the US, where we have servers located at a major datacenter in Dallas, Texas. For information on the software used on the servers, see below.

General Information - Covering both data centers

Although the specification of each server varies (depending on what it is used for), the minimum specification for all the servers that we use is a Quad Core Intel Xeon with 32gb RAM. Our new Windows 2022 based web servers use Hex Core Intel Xeon processors, with 32gb RAM and NVMe SSD Drives. The UK & US servers use separate copies of the Helm control panel and have separate email, ftp, statistics, database etc. However the availability of two geographically diverse locations allows us to build greater redundancy into our network than web hosts situated in one location. There are 4 DNS servers, two hosted in the UK and two in the US. These 4 DNS servers will share data between them meaning that even if an entire country was unreachable, there would still be at least one DNS server available to answer DNS queries for your domains. This is important as this means that email will be queued for later delivery if there should be a problem with the mail server, rather than being lost as it would be if no DNS servers were available.

Every server is backed up daily to a different physical location as the main servers, so that we always have two complete copies of the data.

Software Used - Covering both data centers

We use the same basic software configuration on both sets of servers, here is a list of some of the software that we use: