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JUN 20th

New Infrastructure Posted at 10:38am, 20th Jun 2011 in General News

Xepta is pleased to announce the completion of a major infrastructure upgrade, enhancing our platform across the full spectrum of our services.

The upgrade was rolled out over previous weeks and involved a range of equipment being replaced alongside all software being updated to the latest versions. Just some of the improvements we've made:

• A thirty-fold increase in our bandwidth capacity, offering extremely high transfer speeds for our sites and services.
• A complete replacement of all 32-bit systems with higher performance 64-bit hardware, enhancing information processing system-wide.
• Distribution of our master nameservers over three independent units to provide load balancing and redundancy.
• Isolation of all services, running web, email and database services on dedicated instances to provide higher security.
• Automatic hardware failover and RAID arrays to provide unmatched availability.
• 2 hourly backup of all servers to complement our existing nightly on and off-site backups.
• All Windows Server 2003 operating systems replaced with the latest edition of Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Core web services migrated from Microsoft IIS 6 to Microsoft IIS 7.5.
• MySQL upgraded to 5.5.x series.
• PHP upgraded to 5.3.x series.

Xepta continues to review and upgrade all hardware and software systems on a regular basis and this marks a major milestone in the evolution and expansion of our service platform.