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Enhanced Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Mitigation Service
03 Nov 2008
One of today’s fastest growing and potentially crippling threats is a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack.

To address such threats, the POBox Hosting DDoS Mitigation Service provides customers with the ability to minimise the impact of potential DDoS attacks by providing protection at the core router level, and re-routing potential DDoS attack traffic to one of our cleaning centers.

With the ever evolving techniques used by the attackers, POBox Hosting continues to stay one step ahead by investing in the latest hardware and software solutions to combat these new variations.

For just £3,000 per month, you can be assured peace of mind.

To find out more, call Sales on +44 (0)207 906 7601
 
 

 
Upgrade your old 1U Server and get up to speed with the latest Dell Blade Solution
28 Oct 2008
POBox Hosting is now installing Dell Poweredge M1000E chassis using Poweredge M600 Intel Blade servers as standard.

Whilst 1U servers are easy to rack, configure and maintain ~ in a 42U rack you can only effectively manage 32 x 1U servers due to the maximum amount of IPKVM modules and power connections available. In a 42U rack, it is possible (with the right switch modules in the back of a Dell Blade Chassis) to have a total of 64 servers, giving much better density of servers for your 42U of rackspace even leaving 2U for switches!

In addition, the Dell Blade Chassis has six high efficiency power supplies which can power the entire chassis and can run on less if required (more for redundancy, less for power saving). Inside each M600 Blade we use small form factor 2.5” SAS disks which are always set up with RAID1 for redundancy. Intel Xeon L5410 quad core processors are used running at 2.33Ghz with 2x6Mb Cache, each using only 50w of power.

If you are interested in our Dell Blade Solution, please contact Sales on +44 (0)207 906 7601
 
 

 
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is now available for purchase from POBox Hosting!
08 Aug 2008
From 11th August SQL server 2008 will available from POBox Hosting for our Dedicated Server and PayGo platforms.

Microsoft SQL server 2008 is the next revision of microsoft's powerful database application and with SQL server 2008 many new features have been introduced, such as transparent data encryption, comprehensive auditing as well as many productivity tools!

Please speak with sales if you require further info.
 
 

 
New GREEN directives
01 Jun 2008
Despite appearing to be last to join the environmental bandwagon, POBox Hosting has been working behind the scenes for several years now to reduce the environmental consequences of running an ISP in this day and age.

Since 2003 we have been working closely with manufacturers such as Dell, Sun and Apple who provide servers for our customers and have been active in our efforts to encourage them to invest in the latest power efficient technologies, such as low voltage chips, lower power GREEN hard drives and efficient power supplies.

This has resulted in our new datacentre racks using less power than our first and second generation racks!
 
 

 
Small UK company pips Sun at the post
03 May 2006
POBox Hosting a small UK based hosting company has beaten its much larger rival Sun Microsystems to the post with its grid computing rental.

POBox Hosting first introduced hourly server rental last November to accommodate easy access to the server marketplace for entry level hosting customers.

Tim Poultney, Managing Director said: "Our solution has been running for a year with the latest addition being an online server build system. Our PayGo solution enables customers to rent a server by the hour for 50p, or run as a monthly or yearly contracted service as required. Signup is done online, and the ordered server is delivered within minutes of completion"