Web Server Management

Benefits

• Improve flexibility: deploy resources more quickly, shorten project timelines and respond to changing needs faster
• Control costs: lower capital investment and operational expenditure
• Make better use of resources: rely on Colt's wide-ranging skills and expertise to manage your web-hosting service; refocus your in-house teams on more strategic activities
• Get peace of mind: be confident about the availability, security and performance of your critical websites and applications

Key features

• Range of infrastructure and application management options
• Easy scalability with new web servers provisioned within hours
• Secure, resilient service with 24x7 monitoring and analysis
• Access to professional skills and up-to-date hardware and software
   

Hosting your websites in-house is time-consuming for IT and places significant demands on CAPEX and OPEX. Maintaining a high level of skills in diverse areas like virtualisation, web applications and e-commerce systems requires specialist training and recruitment – a further drain on resources.

You can save all of this time, effort and money by out-tasking the hosting of your websites to us. Our Managed Web Hosting service can be delivered on dedicated or shared (cloud) infrastructure so you can find the right balance of flexibility, cost and security. The service is easily scalable, enabling you to respond promptly to changing needs by deploying additional web resources more quickly and shortening project timelines.

It's the easiest and most cost-effective way to give your organisation a secure, resilient and scalable web service that assures the availability and performance of your company's business-critical websites and applications.

Colt Managed Web Hosting brings together infrastructure and application management to create a high-availability managed hosting service that fits your organisation's specific needs. You access your Managed Web Hosting service using a Colt internet access service.

Managed web servers

We offer two managed web server options:

• Microsoft IIS with Microsoft Windows 2003 Server on HP Proliant servers
• Apache Web Server with Sun Solaris or Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP Proliant or Sun Solaris servers

We manage the connectivity between your web servers, load balancers and firewall.

Load balancing

We ensure the availability and performance of your web applications through load-balancing – distributing client sessions over multiple servers using IP traffic management. You can choose from the following load-balancing options:

• Round robin (simple and weighted)
• Least connections (simple and weighted)
• Observed (balance of least connections and best response times).

24x7 monitoring

We monitor your Managed Web Hosting service 24x7, and analyse and resolve any alarms and warnings generated by our monitoring tools. We work within an ITIL framework to ensure consistent processes and industry best practice.