Servers

Real Free Websites maintains servers in Hong Kong (i-Advantage Data Centres) and the USA (SAVVIS Data Centres), thus ensuring versatility, choice and numerous opportunities for your business or home-based web solutions

How to choose: The main issue in choosing between the data centres is knowing where the majority of your clients are geographically located. The closer to the server the better. More...

Mega i-Advantage Data Centre

Down time is not an option for your web site. That is why we invest heavily in hardware, and our facilities are carefully chosen to ensure that clients are up and running on the Internet - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.

The Largest Internet Service Centre Building in the World

Floor to floor height:: Designed to Host Over 10,000 Racks; Typical floor: 4.1m ( 3.5m under beam ); Floor loading: 5 kPa / 7.5kPa; Total floor area: 350,000 sq.ft. gross; Typical floor: 14,000 sq.ft. gross; No. of Storey: 24 storeys of ISC's; See floor plan

Uninterruptible Power Supply

In case of local power failures, our data center provides:: Utility Connection; Dual feed 11kV power supply from separate HKE zone substations; Dual feed telecom connection from separate telephone exchanges; Electricity Supply; Main Supply: 2000 KVA Transformers; UPS: 400KVA UPS modules with n+l configuration per floor, 30 mins battery back up time, dual power supply risers; EPS: 2000KVA generator sets ( 24-hour continuous full supply ); Earthing: Separate data center clean earth; See power supply; See low voltage switch board; See battery rack; See isolation transformer; See dedicated diesel generator

Industrial Grade Air-Conditioning

To maintain our equipment in optimum condition we control the environment:: Indoor temperature at 20 +/- 2 Degree Celsius; Relative humidity at 50% +/- 10 %; Direct expansion type or Chilled Water Type CRAC unit; See computer room air conditioning

Production Servers

We use only the best and most reliable brands of hardware to provide the best services to our customers. Our servers are Compaq ProLiant ML370 G3 Xeon 3.20GHz/2MB Cache, 2GB DDR RAM, 146GB UltraSCSI Hard Drive, designed for a 24/7 web serving environment.

We use the best servers:: See global operation center; See servers in rack; See a rack in Internet service center; See rack in a private cage; See private s.u.i.t.e

Spare Servers

For every 3 production servers we keep 1 online spare server. If a production server fails, it will be immediately replaced with a spare server, and the latest backup will be restored. In this way, we can offer you a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Network Reliability

The following state-of-the-art equipment ensures our network is highly reliable:: Dual TBE rooms and dual risers; Dedicated 100mm dia G.I. Conduit for vertical backbone; G.I. Conduit for interfloor cabling use; Optical fibre to the building

Savvis Data Centre

The only operator to combine a carrier-class tier1 international IP network, independently tested as offering best-in-class reliability and performance, and a content distribution network-bypassing internet congestion to deliver sought-after content at high speeds.

Savvis boasts the world's largest IP backbone with a single autonomous system (AS) number: by minimizing 'hops' between parts of the Internet, faster, more reliable performance is delivered and user data is given a more direct route to its destination.

IP Network

The network has the ability to meet the most demanding traffic:: Satellite earth stations pointing at 20 geostationary satellites and 78 major global cable systems - supplying the global reach to support businesses around the world; Global, regional and local voice and data networks that ensure taking information wherever it needs to go

Facilities

SAVVIS' world-class facilities feature:: Raised floors; Climate control systems with separate cooling zones; Seismically braced racks; See air conditioning; See air conditioning; See ventilation corridor

Protection and Security

SAVVIS data centers are further protected by some of the most powerful physical security available, including:: Advanced smoke detection and fire suppression systems; 24/7 secured access with motion sensors, video surveillance and security breach alarms; See hand scanner; See cages; See cabinets

Reliability and Performance

The highest levels of reliability and performance are delivered with:: A redundant network of multiple fiber trunks from multiple sources; Redundant power on the premises; Multiple backup generators; See power distribution units; See generators