Advanced hosting infrastructure

Faster, More Stable, More Secure

NetRegistry has developed an infrastructure to support the rapid deployment of clustered web hosting solutions.

We have in place at all times a high availability, highly scalable, fully redundant and fault tolerant capability for all layers (indicated on the diagram to the right).

At any point, to support a clustered requirement, we can establish a server cluster taking advantage of the existing infrastructure. This dramatically reduces deployment costs, timelines and requirement to monitor and test new infrastructure.

The layers which are in place for your application, should you wish to use them, are:

1. Storage area layer: IBM fibre channel RAID 5 storage device running a shared file system developed to support supercomputing applications.
2. File system layer: IBM Servers presenting the Storage Area Network (SAN) via multiple Direct Attach Nodes, which deliver large files from the SAN in parallel. Nodes are in active-active configuration, providing redundancy and failover.
3. Parallel data path layer: via our gigabit switching infrastructure. Redundant with active-passive failover.
4. Cluster layer: Available for your dedicated clustered application servers (www/ASP)
5. Routing, firewall and load balancing layer: Redundant router in active-passive failover configuration with full BGP redundancy drawing IP connectivity from 2 Tier 1 providers (Optus/Telstra) and 1 neutral Tier 2 peer exchange (PIPE Networks). Load balancers have redundancy and active-active failover configuratiuon.
   

All customer data storage including static www pages and MSSQL database files are stored on the SAN and backed up daily via our automated backup procedures. Offsite copies are maintained.

This infrastructure gives customers the most rapid deployment option possible for mission critical applications. It features full redundancy and fault tolerance with no limitations on storage and performance.

By simply adding servers into the infrastructure at appropriate points we can manage scalability without downtime to meet demand.

At all times, the infrastructure is managed to ensure that there are sufficient free resources at any potential bottleneck points.