This is creating a challenge for website hosting companies, as it is becoming difficult to handle this volume of traffic without slowdowns. At NSL we have designed our systems to cope reliably with this huge increase in speed. The key decision has been to re-locate our servers to an Internet Exchange, so rather than taking the traffic to our servers on slow leased lines, we are moving our servers to where the traffic is. Power is one of the major causes of data centre failure. Physical security includes a network of closed circuit cameras, full perimeter alarms, a vibration sensing system and security guards on site 24 hours a day.
Air conditioning keeps the servers at a safe temperature.
The system in monitored 24 hours a day, and engineers are on call at all times. Backup servers are present in our head office and in the London Internet Exchange.