Web Services

When it comes to value for money, nothing comes close to bmStudios Web Services. Whether you are looking to publish your first web site or enhance your web presence with a database-driven, sophisticated e-commerce store, you can be sure that you are getting the best in technical infrastructure.

Our equipment is located at the state-of-the-art Global Switch facility in Sydney. Global Switch Sydney is Australia's largest carrier neutral facility giving bmStudios customers the very best in environment, security, back-up systems and connectivity via dedicated 155 Mbit STM1 ATM link, and multiple OC3 internet connections with 6MB available PVC for failover.

Our investment in an advanced web hosting infrastructure makes a real difference in speed, stability and security for our customers. It enables us to offer a Service Level Agreement on our Mission Critical Hosting with an outstanding 99.95% uptime guarantee.

Our servers are clustered and load balanced so the speed of your website and email does not suffer as a result of another site on the same server eating up all the bandwidth, and each website is 'sandboxed' so should a website on the same server create problems that would freeze an Apache server, your website will remain online.

All bmStudios services are run on IBM NetFinity 4500R rack mounted web servers powered by Zeus webserver software, the most stable and high performance server software available. These are specified to be mission critical machines, scalable to incorporate the use of a RAID disk array. Cisco and Lucent Network equipment is used, with full service contracts.

All websites enjoy the benefit of full load balancing across a clustered web server farm, all the data being stored in a fibre channel RAID array. Load balancers ensure web requests to any website are distributed to the least busy web server machine, maximising performance 24x7. Redundancy exists at every level with each point of failure protected by a fully automated fail-over replacement.