About - Expand Cluster - hosting server architecture

The Web Access Expand Cluster was completed and began serving web sites in June 2007

hosting server architecture that is:


  • robust
  • multi platform
  • high performance
  • high availability
  • load balanced
  • scalable

featuring:


  • centralised DNS servers
  • windows web server cluster
  • RHEL web server cluster
  • MS SQL server cluster
  • MySQL server cluster
  • separate mail servers

and supported by:


  • Nagios server monitoring with automated service restart
  • Nagios instant notification on failed restart to email and SMS
  • full backup archives at 1/2/3/4/8/16/32 weeks
  • daily incremental backups for past 7 days
  • BackupPC - RHEL servers backed up to NAS (network-attached storage)
  • Microsoft VSS - windows server 2003/2008 servers backed up to NAS

Web Access Expand Cluster - hosting server architecture