Infrastructure

Take a closer look at the infrastructure of CatN

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vCluster Security

With the typical mod_php setup, a rogue webmaster or bug in a single PHP script could compromise every script and configuration file for every site hosted on the server. So a webmaster on the same shared server could discover your database credentials…

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Load Balancers

Load balancers are used to distribute traffic evenly across a network, minimising response time by voiding overload and adding redundancy by spreading load across multiple nodes. Load balancing allows seamless replacement of failed nodes…

Secure Server

Access Server

The access server is a dedicated server whose sole purpose is to monitor, log and allow/deny access for a customer to their vCluster. This is the single point of entry to the CatN stack through our firewall/edge servers so must be heavily…

Cloud storage

Off-Site Backups

Backing up website data is vital, not only to protect your investment of time and resources, but also to protect any user data you may have. That’s why at CatN we backup all of our customers data every night to our…

RAID 10

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) 10 is a particular configuration of a RAID array. RAID allows numerous low cost disks to be combined into a single storage device. RAID is now used to replicate data across disks, adding…

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Replication

Replicating data adds redundancy at the layer being replicated. It allows multiple instances of data to exist in a single location, or inn multiple locations if utilising second site or cloud services. In the case of a severe failure…