Our data centre and flooding in York
Our York data centre is comfortably above the maximum level of flooding from a predicted 1 in 1,000 year event, according to an independent report that we commissioned before purchasing the building.
Read moreHow we sync the time on thousands of servers from our York data centre
If you’ve ever struggled with the accuracy of your cheap digital watch, then you’ll know that electronic devices can be quite rubbish at keeping the time. Computer hardware is also terrible at keeping the time. Without constant correction, all our servers would gain or lose about one second per day. It’s essential that all our […]
Read moreHardware Security Procedures: A visit from the shredder!
Disposing securely of old hard discs is an important part of our data hygiene. Each time we retire a server, the discs are securely wiped before they’re removed or re-purposed. If they fail, are out of warranty or are otherwise basically useless, they need to be disposed of properly. Having them shredded is by far […]
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How Bytemark are moving between data centres
As you may know, Bytemark bought its own building and built a data centre in York back in 2013. Previously, we had been renting data centre space in Manchester since 2008. Initially, we didn’t think we would go to the hassle of moving people across. Until we got our renewal quote from our suppliers in […]
Read moreLive railway cameras from YO26 in York
When the first train left York station in 1839, rail travel was still very new. In fact, the first passenger railway between two stations (Manchester to Liverpool) had only been completed nine years before. Some say that the railway “saved York from stagnation” and it’s not hard to see the lasting impact that railways and […]
Read moreTest your connection speed to our data centre in York
Did you know that YO26, Bytemark’s data centre in York, is included in the speedtest.net host directory? This means that you can carry out running connection and bandwidth tests to see how fast our services could work for you! What is speedtest.net? Speedtest is a third-party tool provided by Ookla. As the name suggests, it […]
Read moreBytemark data centre build: Matthew’s picture tour
I finally took a leisurely tour around our nearly finished data centre. Almost all the big ticket items are in. So starting in the UPS room: Those are the first two cabinets of our Uninterruptible Power Supply system (with another two behind), the buffer between the servers and the mains supply or the diesel generator. […]
Read moreBytemark’s self-built data centre
In February 2013, after over 10-years as a hosting provider, Bytemark made the decision to invest £1.2 million into building our own data centre. Here’s the complete guide to how we made it happen. YO26 Peter and I are proud to announce that we’ve completed the purchase of a building for Bytemark. The name, YO26, is taken […]
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