34SP.com was established in the year 2000. The company was founded with the aim of bridging the gap between sophisticated hosting solutions and affordable prices. Leveraging the power and stability of open source software with a commitment to ethical business practices 34SP.com has become synonymous with reliability, professionalism and value for money.Growth of reputation has been matched with an expanding range of services, seeing 34SP.com become a fully fledged service provider. A diverse range of clients now rely on 34SP.com to support their business operations, with available services ranging from dedicated server hosting to colocation.Our main offices are located in central Manchester (England), with our equipment in central London (England). 34SP.com is both a Limited company and V.A.T. registered. 34SP.com is also registered in accordance with the data protection act (UK).Equipment housingThe majority of our equipment is housed within Interxion London, England. All Interxion IEC's (Internet Exchange Centers) are modern high specification world class data centers.Interxion IEC's are staffed to support on site engineering, installation, operations and maintenance activities. Fully managed 24/7/365 by skilled engineers and monitored around the clock by Network Operations Center staff and security personnel.All centers are specially designed, equipped and secured to the highest standards, with redundancy at all levels. All boast state of the art systems including:    *     Air conditioning with n+1 redundancy, average 22C temperature    *     Fire protection inc laser smoke detection. alarm installation and VESDA (very early smoke detection alarm) sensors    *     Automatic argon gas based fire supression system    *     Water detection systems    *     365/24/7 Security patrols and surveillance    *     230V AC UPS Power Capacity, 2n redundant with 10 minutes autonomy    *     Raised anti static flooring    *     Electrically grounded infrastructure    *     Lighting 400 Lux at ground Level    *     24/7 Facility acccess    *     Indefinite power supplied by backup diesel generator    *     Overhead cablingNetwork connectivity34SP.com utilises a multi-homed and BGP routed network. Currently we employ two seperate transit providers with the ability to connect to additional networks as demand requires.Our present connectivity is provided by both the Level(3) and Abovenet networks. These fully independent connections ensure maximum uptime and speed of routing for your site. The 34SP.com network is fully routed and switched using Cisco Systems equipment.34SP.com is also a Local Internet Registry (LIR) as a member of the RIPE NCC. As an LIR 34SP.com is independently responsible for the administration and allocation of the address space that underpins our network.ServersTo maintain our high levels of performance and uptime 34SP.com relies on Dell servers. We use a mix of dual and quad Intel Xeon systems with memory ranging from 2-4GB. All servers are pro-actively monitored 24/7/365, ensuring your website runs smoothly and without error.The majority of our hosting packages operate using the FreeBSD OS. FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for the Intel compatible (x86) architecture. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals.FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features today which are still missing in other operating systems, even some of the best commercial ones.FreeBSD makes an ideal Internet server. It provides robust network services, even under the heaviest of loads, and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response times for hundreds, or even thousands, of simultaneous user processes.