Zero Carbon Hosting

OUR HOSTING SERVER HAS GONE GREEN!

Host your website with Lighthouse Consultancy on our highly stable and eco-friendly 'green' server environment. By choosing to host your web site with us, you are making a commitment to the environment to protect the future! The data centre we use is powered by grid supplied Ecotricity generated wind power.

UK Wind Powered Data Centre Specification

The data centre is the UK's first ever (and currently only) purpose built, low energy, high performance data centre featuring:

• Zero carbon energy consumption
• Full N+2 power resilience with UPS and standby bio-diesel generators
• 100% uptime SLA on internet connectivity with triple fail safe BT 21CN connectivity
• Full hardware maintenance with 1 hour guaranteed hardware replacement
• Non-stop monitoring of infrastructure, network and internet transit
• Military grade physical security

Power Distribution

A combination of utility and backup generation offers full N+2 resilience on all power feeds to data suites. Internal distribution is 415 volt, 3-phase; diversely routed and connected directly to individual UPS units serving technical loads.

Resilience

The latest generaton of UPS (uninteruptable power supplies) and fail-safe bio-diesel emergency generators provide guaranteed uninteruptable power. Full duplicated Cummins biodiesel generators, with long term fuel reserves are capable of providing run-time in excess of two weeks without refueling.

Access Control

The wind powered data centre is built to the highest specification and utilises the latest power, environmental and security systems with a combination of physical security and sophisticatied electronic countermeasures to offer a level of security unmatched by any other UK data centre.

Round the clock internal and external high resolution CCTV is installed site-wide with hard disk recording and archiving capabilities; alongside a combination of card and card/pin readers at strategic points, there are at least 8 layers of controlled access to pass through before gaining access to data suites.

The data cenre registeres all visitors using biometric and image capture systems to provide positive identification, only allowing vetted and qualified technicians to access data hosting centres.

Construction

Located deep underground in a remote ex-NATO nuclear bunker, this 30,000 square foot, world-class, purpose-built data centre is split over three floors. Built in a contrete shell with 3 metre thick steel and tungsten reinforced walls, 4 metre thick steel and tungsten reinforced ceiling; reinforced concrete internal floors; concrete block floor to ceiling and partitions for individual suites.

Fire Detection

The latest fire detection and suppression technology has been utilised to ensure uninterupted operation with all hosting suites protected by FM200 zero ozone depleting fire suppression systems and data suites and adjacent plant support areas featuring aspirating high sensitivity smoke detection.

Environment

Due to it's subterranean design, the data centre keeps an ambient temperature all year round without the need for additional heating or cooling. Environmental probes are located in the top of racks to provide real time monitoring of temperature and humidity.

BT Triple Fail-safe 21CN Internet Connectivity

The UK wind powered data centre is protected by triple-failsafe network connectivity incorporating the latest optical network technology from BT, which allows data to be transferred via two totally independent SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) fibre optic rings.

Each ring supplies two separate fibre optic cables (each containing 96 fibres), any one of which is capable of supporting the full load of the data centre. The cables are then routed via entirely separate pathways from the building to connect with BT's nationwide 'Colossus' Core infrastructure which now underpins all of BT's IP services - with no points of convergence outside of the facility, all of which helps keep your mission critical applications safely online 24x7x365.

Network Diagram