{"id":96503,"date":"2014-02-15T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T12:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=96503"},"modified":"2014-02-15T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T12:13:32","slug":"mybroadbands-home-technical-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/96503-mybroadbands-home-technical-details.html","title":{"rendered":"MyBroadband’s home – technical details"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband is South Africa\u2019s largest IT website, with over 1.2 million unique monthly readers and 7 million page views. Many people have asked us what it takes to host such a large website \u2013 here are the details.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband is hosted in Hetzner\u2019s new data centre in Samrand. This data centre replicates Hetzner Online\u2019s award-winning, energy efficient German facilities.<\/p>\n

This data centre features N+2 redundancy on air conditioning, fully redundant physically separated A+B power feeds, and 24\/7 security.<\/p>\n

To serve its connectivity needs, Hetzner uses AfricaINX and Internet Solutions as their primary bandwidth providers.<\/p>\n

Connectivity is provided through diverse, redundant fibre routes connecting the facility to a 10Gbps fibre ring.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband\u2019s hosting<\/h3>\n

MyBroadband\u2019s hosting is managed by Hetzner\u2019s custom hosting solutions (CHS) division which focusses on high traffic, high availability websites.<\/p>\n

As part of the CHS supported product, MyBroadband has direct access to high-end server admin and network engineering skills, available 24\/7.<\/p>\n

The server cluster architecture principles, designed and maintained by the custom hosting solutions team, focusses on simplicity.<\/p>\n

A wide range of open source technologies are used to maintain flexibility, freedom to choose preferred technology and to contain costs.<\/p>\n

The hosting solution sports DDos Mitigation, and removes any single points of failure without introducing excessive complexity or cost.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband makes use of high-end servers, featuring Intel Xeon Quad Core CPUs, 32 GB ECC RAM and SSDs for high disk IO (input\/output) components.<\/p>\n

For security reasons the finer details about the hosting environment cannot be revealed, but the diagram below provides an overview of MyBroadband\u2019s server cluster.<\/p>\n

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MyBroadband Server Cluster<\/p><\/div>\n

More on Hetzner’s new DC<\/h3>\n

Hetzner\u2019s new data centre taking shape: photos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

600% more traffic, lower prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband recently moved to Hetzner\u2019s new data centre in Samrand Business Park, Centurion. Here are some of the technical details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35,1065,521],"class_list":["post-96503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-hetzner","tag-mybroadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96841,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96503\/revisions\/96841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}