The Isle of Man…..Freedom to Flourish!

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Customers of Continent 8 benefit from its investment in advanced data centres, high quality networks and online technologies. The data centres are equipped to the highest standards to cater for even the most stringent levels of availability. In addition to basic hosting solutions, Continent 8 provides a complete managed hosting service portfolio - including network management, co-location services, Internet connectivity, DDoS mitigation services, backups and disaster recovery - providing an end-to-end service to those who want to take full advantage of the services on offer.

With an area stretching only 227 square miles, the Isle of Man is ideally situated in the heart of the British Isles, being only 50 km from both Ireland and the United Kingdom as well as being a gateway to Europe. The Island is an internally self-governing dependent territory of the British Crown and has a rich and colourful heritage. The island boasts stunning and very diverse scenic beauty and is host to a number of prominent attractions, the most notable being the Isle of Man TT races.

Supported by a strong and stable government, the Isle of Man is an ideal location for the setting up of e-business and e-gaming infrastructure and is the corporate headquarters and home of Continent 8 Technologies. The Isle of Man is a perfect hosting location to serve the European market or act as a disaster recovery site for e-business companies.

The new Continent 8 Data Centre on the Isle of Man is linked into the wider Continent 8 network creating unique opportunities for customers to serve markets and enable effective disaster recovery strategies with a trusted supplier.

Built and operated using the very best industry practice, the key technical attributes of the Continent 8 Isle of Man data centre are listed below:

Space

  • 1,500 m2 of total floor space
  • 500 m2 of available technical space

Power

  • Fully redundant power systems
  • Generators capable of supporting full data centre load on permanent standby
  • Average power of 7.5 kW per rack

Environment

  • Fully redundant cooling systems
  • Temperature maintained at 21 ± 2°C
  • Humidity maintained at 50 ± 10% RH

Fire Protection

  • VESDA early warning system
  • Argonite fire suppression system

Network

  • Client connectivity provided by Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
  • Government owned fibre-optic system provides connectivity to Manchester and London
  • Additional fibre-optic connections from Cable & Wireless with diversified off-island routes to London
  • DDoS attack protection
  • Private connectivity to London and Manchester
  • Various IP routing scenarios can be achieved, including automatic re-routing of public IP address space between facilities.

Monitoring

  • All network, electrical and mechanical systems electronically monitored

Security

  • Data centre manned by security guards on a 24x7 basis
  • Electronic access control to all sensitive areas
  • CCTV monitoring of perimeter area and sensitive internal areas

Technical Support

  • Data centre technicians either on-site or on-call on a 24x7 basis
  • International customers can rely on our onsite support for everything that cannot be done remotely