Infrastructure

Anchor is an entirely Australian based web hosting provider. All equipment and inrastructure used to support the hosting services is located in our high grade data centre located within the carrier neutral Global Switch facility.

Data Centre

The facility consists of:

  • N+1 redundant UPS system in place to provide clean reliable power
  • N+1 onsite Diesel generator is used to supply power for extended outages
  • N+1 redundant air conditioning systems to maintain temperature
  • Gas based fire supression with VESDA smoke detection and alarm system
  • Backup dry head water hydrant system
  • Onsite security guards 24 × 7
  • Electronic access control systems
  • 24 × 7 access to allow out of hours fault resolution

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Network

The Anchor network is fully operated and controlled by Anchor.

  • Multi homed network connectivity
  • 100Mbps Ethernet links to Uecomm, 150Mbps Vocus, 100Mbps Internode and 100 Mbps PIPE
  • Fully redundant core routing and switching infrastructure
  • All services operate from Anchor IP address space
  • Out of band access for management activities
  • Full remote administration capability

network-diagram

Servers

All servers are highend Dell & SuperMicro rackmount equipment. We maintain a large onsite inventory of spare components and identical servers to allow rapid resolution of faults.