UK Web Hosting & Domains: About Flow Internet

"Very pleased with the help given by your staff. They explained technical details in an easy way and were patient when providing information to a non expert like me."

"I know you have better things to do than have my emails, but I'll tell you this if no-one else will - YOU ARE THE BEST! Thanks for being there for us - you and your services are just fantastic and this customer really appreciates all that you do for all of us."

"Worked like a charm, again proof why i continue using you guys for our web hosting. Fixed in 10 mins flat! "

"I don't know if many people bother to do this, but I wanted to thank Flow Internet for its fantastic services. I have registered names and used the hosting services and found that the information available at every step of the way has been superb, accurate and intuitively helpful. "

"Please pass on my thanks to one of your customer service people ... his professional approach to sorting things out for me has assured many months of payments from me yet. My site is trouble-free and I regard the levels of support from Flow Internet as of the highest standard."

Flow Internet is a Domain, Hosting and Web Design provider, based in Greater Manchester, the United Kingdom. Our aim is to provide solid, reliable web hosting at low costs, so that professional solutions become available to a wider range of web users.

Our web hosting provides advanced features at low cost, allowing our customers to gain a professional result without breaking the bank. We subscribe to the Web Hosting Code Of Ethics programme, in support of web hosts providing a level of standard and service that we aim to surpass.

Our web design team specialize in creating custom designs for personal and community websites, as well as entire design, domain and hosting solutions for businesses. We also specialize in vBulleten, PHPBB and Invision Power Board skins.

Flow Internet Datacentre

Flow Internet's state of the art datacentre provides our customers with the speed, reliability and uptime they require. With the latest server technology and several backbone connections, Flow Internet ensures that your site will be available as much as possible.

Our datacentre is manned 24/7 and is in a secure location. Backups are taken daily and stored in a safe location away from the building. On-site security prevents any unauthorized accesses to our datacentre and its facilities.

Our datacentre is growing all the time and allows us to provide for our customers with speed, efficiency and ease. Our datacenter is what allows Flow Internet to offer such a powerful service and stand out from the rest.

Our Web Servers

Flow Internet use state-of-the-art web servers , utilizing the latest technology. Our fine tuned customised servers mean we have built a web hosting platform that is second to none. Our platform is designed in such a way that if any server fails another server automatically and without delay takes over that servers workload.

For example if one of our mail servers were to break down, another server would automatically come online, with all the correct configuration and take over the work of the failed server. In this period no email would be lost.

As well as this, all data is stored in two large network disk arrays, data is automatically synchronized between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime.

Web Hosting Infrastructure

Server Specification

Our current server specification is:-

Dual Intel Xeon Processor 3.6GHz with 4MB Cache
4 GB SDRAM
Dual 36 GB SCSI Drive (for the operating system)
RAID Mirroring (for the operating system)
Dual Power Supplies
Dual Gigabit Network Adapters

100% Cisco Gigabit Network

Flow Internet's network operates on industry leading network equipment from Cisco Systems, all our switches and routers are developed by Cisco. Our network is based on gigabit technology which means that it runs at a speed of 1000 Mb per second, most web hosting networks are limited to 100 Mb per second.

Our network also utilise's 100% CAT6 network cable, CAT6 cable contains four pairs of copper wire and unlike CAT5, utilise's all four pairs. CAT6 supports Gigabit (1000 Mbps) Ethernet and supports communications at more than twice the speed of CAT5e, the other popular standard for Gigabit Ethernet cabling.

Redhat Enterprise Linux Platform

Redhat is the leading provider of Linux open source software, for many years now Redhat Linux has been the number one choice for web hosting companies, not just because of Redhats amazing scalability but also because of its track record as the most stable operating system available in the market today.

Our systems utilise the latest Redhat server technology to allow our servers to be continually up to date with Redhat system & security patches.

Unlike many of our competitors we run Redhat Enterprise Linux, the most stable release of Redhat Linux available and the only version that stays totally up to date with security patches.