Sun Solaris Hosting Service - NEW

Channel 6 Multimedias' customers can now enjoy premium quality web hosting and email of the standard usualy only practical for large enterprises and organisations. All websites have been migrated to Sun Microsystems servers running the Solaris operating system and protected by Cisco hardware firewalls.

The bottom line is a faster, more secure, resilient, stable hosting platform for delivering your services and brand values via the internet. Your website and email available day and night, working harder for your company and providing your visitors with a premium quality online experience.

This hosting service is exclusively available to new and existing clients who chose their website design and support services from Channel 6 Multimedia. Our servers currently handle hundreds of requests every minute with millions of pounds worth of e-commerce transactions every year.

Included below are some technical specs and key features if you are that way inclined. In the mean time feel free to have a look at www.ch-6hosting.co.uk where we will be launching new hosting and email features soon.


Tech Spec & Key Features

+ Sun Microsystems High Performance Server
If its good enough for Ebay its good enough for us.

+ 2 x 64-Bit UltraSparc III Processors
The brains of the system, and two brains are better than one. 64-Bit is the next generation of PC processor that will probably be main stream in a year or two, once Microsoft and Intel catch up.

+ 2 x SCSI Hard Drives with Raid 1
HotSwap Mirrored high speed hard drives, if one fails the other takes over = maximum uptime and redundancy.

+ 2 GB RAM
The power to do a few thousand tasks at once.

+ Crypto SSL Accelerator
A dedicated hardware co-processor to handle secure communications. Given the chance it will process 800 e-commerce transactions/second.

+ Solaris Operating System
Sun's commercial UNIX operating system, more secure and powerful than Windows, Mac and Linux.

+ Sun One ASP 4 and MySQL 4 64-Bit database
New more powerful, more reliable and feature rich software allows you to offer innovative online services and functionality to your customers.

+ Cisco Pix Firewall
A dedicated industry leading hardware firewall device to keep out unwanted hackers and purveyors of evil.

+ Maximum Security Data Centre
Housed in ServerBank™, Manchester, an underground converted bank vault manned 24 hrs with CCTV surveillance, swipe card access, air conditioning, backup power supply and fire suppression. The server makes its presence felt by being the noisiest machine in the data centre.

[05.11.2004]