You buy, own and manage the servers that deliver the IT services your business needs and locate them in our environmentally-controlled, secure server rooms.  We are completely independent of any given hardware manufacturer, and equally at home hosting Microsoft, Apple, Sun or Linux environments.

To provide the control and security you require, our facilities include:

• Controlled computer-room access: we ensure that only our staff and authorised customer representatives, escorted at all times, can enter the server rooms which are housed in buildings with minimal external indication of their purpose.  No external windows coupled with solid walls means external IR penetration is prevented.  We shield against electro-magnetic interference through the use of coatings, metal meshes, strips and metallised fabrics.

• Power: we have a substation on-site.  Our UPS facilities provide a minimum of three hour of battery backup.  Thereafter power is provided by our generator until there is assurance from the local electricity distributor that a stable supply can once more be maintained.
  

• Environment monitoring: we have fire detection and alarm installations throughout our buildings.  This extends to neighbouring buildings, (we own those too), and thus would receive early alert of any incident in adjacent properties.  We also have digital monitoring of temperature, humidity and air pollution and proactively analyse the logs to detect any gradual changes over time.
  

• Connectivity: at our primary site, we have dual, diversely-routed IP connections to a Tier 1 network and we peer with BT, Cogent and Exponential-e over divers routes.  Packet-shaping capabilities are in place to ensure services are maintained, even when under an external attack.  We connect to our Disaster Recovery (DR) site via dedicated point-to-point fibre which passes through no switching exchanges, which enters our DR site through private ducting.
  

• 24/7 support capabilities: service monitoring software runs on dedicated servers in both of our sites.  This includes name servers, switches and routers, as well as customer servers and alerts are automatically generated in the event of service unavailability, or of Ping of Death, IP Spoofing, Flood Attacks etc.  Any period of 5 minutes without a response to probing also results in automatic alerting.
  

A variant of Co-Location is the provision of Virtual Private Server (VPS) capabilities.  This is different from standard Co-Location in that we own the physical server(s) that deliver the services you manage, but it will appear to you that you are running your own dedicated server.  Via the use of VPS software such as VMWare, we are able to offer virtualised hosting of just about any environment.