Data Centre

We are located in a purpose built private 8000sq ft datacentre based in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. The datacentre is divided into two main sections; Section 1 houses our customer's dedicated servers, and our colocation clients along with our web server / mail server / database server systems. Section 2 houses our backbone connectivity, and redundant connections to our network partners with plenty of potential for our future expansion needs.

Network

A few years ago Host Junction and it's partners undertook a complete review of our current and anticipated future connectivity and bandwidth needs and, after much deliberation, joined forces with another B2B provider to relocate it's infrastructure away from London to the South Coast. As well as providing contingency planning in the event of a terrorist attack on the Capital, this allows us unrivalled access to one of the UK's core backbone hubs and a core point of presence for what was then UUnet/MCI's global backbone and the SuperJANET network.

The modern SuperJANET network links all research institutes, universities and further education establishments as well as meeting the needs of a new userbase in the UK’s primary and secondary schools. This was truly the start of the Internet as we know it today. Nowadays UUnet and MCI are part of Verizon and our network location, in adjacent rooms to their global backbone and the world's largest and fastest IP network, gives us direction connection to a massive 95 gigabits per second of bandwidth.

Security

The datacentre is monitored 24/7/365 from remote locations both in the UK and the USA. Host Junction and it's partners contract a global team dedicated to maintaining security for all buildings, network and site visits. 24 hour on site security staff can be assigned to accompanied visits whereby access to the building is strictly controlled for each site visit.

Secure Cabinet Space

Secure colocation space can be provided for 1 server up to multiple racks. Access to rack space is controlled by on-site security and customer defined policies. Host Junction colocation customers enjoy the flexibility to define contacts and permissions for their own equipment ensuring security of their own machines located in our facility. Key coded access to individual racks is available.

Power Supply and Backup

Each rack has 2 independent power feeds, fed from 2 diverse feeds from 2 national power companies. Should one or both of these feeds fail multiple battery UPS systems will kick in immediately to retain full system uptime. If mains power is not restored an external diesel powered generator will start providing full continuous power to the building. Spare fuel for the generators is stored on-site and contracts are in place with fuel companies to deliver continuous emergency fuel for a virtually unlimited amount of time. A large on site dummy load enabled us to test the generators on full load each month.

Fire Suppression

The building is equipped with VESDA (Very-Early warning-Smoke-Detection-Apparatus) and further equipment to detect and suppress the threat of fire. Again, systems are monitored on-site by 24/7/365 staff, and from 2 external network operations centres both in the UK and USA.

Climate Control

Multiple air conditioning systems constantly maintain a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius. Drip sensors located below floor monitor for any leaks in the system. Cold air is forced underneath raised flooring into the bottom of each server rack, and vacuumed out of the top providing maximum cooling efficiency. The position of each server rack/apparatus is calculated by a dedicated deployment team to further optimise cooling efficiency.