netcatalog.co.za

.co.za domains only R150!
24.05.2007

We've slashed the price of registering a South African domain down to only R150.

Mike Barwoord appointed sole reseller for netCatalog hosting in Port Elizabeth
24.05.2007

I recently spent a few weeks in Port Elizabeth after being away for a number of years, and spent a few days with Mike Barwood, from Max Designs.
Mike does all the design and web work for my big brother's business Centrestage Corporate Entertainment and has always given Gary fantastic service. As a result, I'm really excited to be able to announce on my website that netCatalog has appointed Mike Barwood as the sole netCatalog reseller for Port Elizabeth. I will be working with Mike over the coming months to provide a top class professional hosting service for Port Elizabeth businesses.

the complete list of all the centrestage corporate entertainment shows

It all happens at aadvanced data centre in the heart of the UK in Gloucester, where a team of experienced engineers monitor your service 24-7 to ensure the highest levels of performance.

Your websites will be hosted in a datacenter with more bandwidth than our competitors - a massive 400 Mb/s of Internet connectivity. This is provided by three companies, reducing risk to you, in the unlikely event that any should experience network problems. And the three lines are routed separately into the data center building for extra reliability.

Server room

Server Racks.
The data center contains enough capacity to host thousands servers.

Server Racks.
Housed in purpose built Multi Million Pound Data Centre.

Climate control

This advanced million pounds Denco system is at the heart of server room environmental control systems.

Denco Advanced Climate Control Panel

UPS

The most advanced APC X UPS system available providing uninterrupted power to thousands of servers should there be an outage.

The generator switch over panel.

Fire suppression

Control Panel.
In the event of a fire, the data center will be filled with halon gas.

Gas Distributor.
The agent can be discharged in under two seconds.

Security

Video Cameras.
Security is high, CCTV covers all areas of the Data Centre

Reception is manned by security guards 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Redundant DNS Servers
The additional 4 redundant DNS servers for netCatalog's Clustered Hosting customers are located on four completely seperate networks in four different countries and each DNS server has backups and failsafes, making netCatalog clustered hosting a cost effective and highly reliable hosting platform for mission critical websites.

Why do you need redundant DNS Servers?
A significant threat to today's websites is a "denail of service" attack. Instead of hacking into your website, a hacker can simply overwhelm your DNS server and cause all the websites that the DNS server supports to go down for a period of time. If your website has multiple redudant DNS servers that are in no way related to the company providing the hosting, or the server or network that the website resides on, then you are highly unlikely to be affected by a Denial of service attack, since the other DNS servers would look after your website when one of the servers is under attack. Hosting companies employ security tools to respond to attacks, but this can still leave DNS servers unable to respond for a number of hours while engineers respond to the attack.

What is a DNS server?

DNS Servers described on Wikipedia.