UK Data centres from CCS Leeds provide dedicated server hosting on secure, high availability networks with multiple ISP connectivity and hardware redundancy on every level. Monitored 24/7 by our technical support staff we can offer a minimum 99.995% network connectivity guarantee.
From simple web hosting management to multi-site clusters, our infrastructure is designed to meet the stringent requirements for the most mission critical servers. All our clients benefit from the same high-level network infrastructure including firewall security. Differing levels of support are available with our hosting solutions to suit our customer's needs.
CCS Leeds offers one of the most comprehensive ranges of Yorkshire collocation solutions available on the market today. By hosting a business server at the CCS Leeds network operations centre (NOC), customers reduce the risk of data loss and increase security.
Hosting solutions from CCS Leeds allow companies to take advantage of a complete range of services from e-commerce, disaster recovery, data backup and data sharing whilst safe in the knowledge that their hosted environment is the best place possible in a CCS Leeds data centre.
Perimeter
The perimeter of the building has been re-designed to limit ground floor access with the removal of all doorways other than the main reception, and the rear loading bay. The reception door has been reduced in width to prevent a vehicle gaining access and the rear of the building fully enclosed with security fencing, and five vehicle prevention posts installed to both the inside and outside of the loading bay. A high security fire exit door has been installed replacing the traditional door. All ground floor windows are covered with electrically operated shutters and works are underway to install internal grilles to the first floor windows.
The perimeter and adjoining walls have been installed with a Guardwiretm impact and shock detection system and the exposed front wall of the building has a motorway standard crash barrier along its length.
Internal
All access when moving around within the building is controlled by Paxton Net2 dual-factor fob/pin authentication devices interlinked with Milestone CCTV Recorders to ensure that upon attempt to access, the video is archived immediately before, during and after the pass-through of the door.
All critical areas and data suites require access via two physical impact resistant fire doors from general reception, office and welfare areas.
All areas, including typically inaccessible roof voids are protected by a Chubb Galaxy security system with Redcare and GSM based alerting to the alarm response centre. Vibration and impact sensors have been installed to all doorways and critical windows.
General
The entire building is floodlit during the hours of darkness, and digital CCTV covers all external areas and numerous internal areas with specifically focussed cameras on doorways to the data suites, and aisles within the suites, interlinked to both the intruder alarm and access control systems.
Deliveries are only accepted if booked in advance.
Fire
The fire detection and alerting system covers all building areas including roof voids, welfare facilities and the data suites themselves with specific care being taken due to the cooling containment involving the addition of numerous detectors and sounders throughout. The system is also managed and monitored by Chubb at their alarm response centre.
Data suites have been built with prevention in mind, utilising fire retardant roofing materials, masonry partitions rather than combustible boards, and low smoke cabling throughout. Dampers are installed within the air delivery and exhaust pipe work to close the supply of air in the event smoke is detected to prevent feeding an incident or indeed distributing any smoke elsewhere.
The whole fire control system is presently under review due to customer request.
The above infrastructure ensures that CCS Leeds is able to provide piece of mind by delivering a stable, high availability service - backed up by industry leading SLAs (service level agreements).
CCS Leeds data centres all are equipped as standard with the following features:
Substation
The datacentre is connected directly to NPG’s local 11,000 Volt ring main feeding this site and a number of other buildings south east of us. We have a dedicated 0.5 Megawatt allocation on the substation and direct cabling to our own breakers within the substation, which is approximately 15 metres from our building, protecting us from most common disturbances in the local distribution network.
UPS Protection
All critical services in the datacentre (i.e. servers, network equipment and cooling) are protected by a sophisticated Riello Multi Plus N+1 Uninterruptable Power Supply system. This system is made up of a number of individual units configured in a decentralised paralleled fashion, removing any potential SPoF (single point of failure). These are online double-conversion units, meaning they are constantly filtering and conditioning power (smoothing spikes etc) to prevent damage to other hardware in the datacentre. In the event of any disruption in the mains supply, the UPS cluster's internal battery units provide 10 minutes of immediate uninterrupted power protection. These 10 minutes are intended to allow our backup diesel generators to start up and provide power indefinitely. The UPS’s were specifically chosen as they have 96.5% efficiency providing greater output power per unit and lower cooling requirements delivering a cost effective service to the end customer.
Generator
In the event of a prolonged mains power supply failure, our backup diesel generators will automatically start-up and assume the full load of the building. Our pair of 400kVa FG-Wilson powered units are singularly capable of providing full power to all building electrical services such as cooling, data suites, lighting and office hardware etc. We have sufficient on-site fuel storage to provide 48 hours of generator runtime, and have contracts in place for additional fuel deliveries within 4 hours 24/7/365 allowing us to continue full operation in the event of a major long-term power outage.
Power Distribution
Incoming power distribution and control is managed by a custom build service panel encompassing the incoming utility feed, the automated control and changeover devices for the generator, all UPS termination points (six) and output distribution to each data suite. Wrap-around switchgear has been incorporated to allow the removal of the generators or any UPSs with zero service delivery downtime in the event of maintenance or upgrade. The service panel has been over-specified by 25% throughout to aid reliability and longevity.
Rack Distribution
The power for each 47u and 11u equipment rack in the datacentre is provided by two 16A or 32A 'commando' sockets mounted above each rack. Each rack 'footprint' is individually fed directly from the pod's distribution board and protected by a dedicated 16A or 32A MCB circuit-breaker. This ensures that in the unlikely event of an electrical fault in one of the racks, the fault is isolated and prevents other major 'upstream' breakers tripping and causing unnecessary disruption to other server racks. A full 'dark' test of the power system is performed once per month in order to verify all systems are operating correctly. This test involves simulating a full mains failure, by cutting the main incoming power supply.
CCS Leeds data centres all are equipped as standard with the following cooling features:
Cooling System
Cooling is facilitated utilising N+1 Evaporative Cooling with roof mounted units ducted down through the datacentre containment and delivered via overhead plenums directly in front of the server racks. The hot air is extracted from the rear of the racks and used to pre-mix with the incoming air to ensure an even temperature and humidity delivery and the remainder is utilised to heat the office areas and board room on the top floor and the reception area on the ground floor of the premises. The delivered cold air is particle filtered and humidity controlled and rather than being constantly re-circulated as traditional DX cooling systems, delivers fresh chilled air creating a pleasant and static free working environment within the data suites.
Containment
The racks are arranged in hot aisle contained bays and air sealed with blanking plates in all un-used spaces and fire retardant curtains above and to the sides of the rows. This ensures optimum cold air delivery to the equipment and eliminates energy wastage when cold air bypasses the equipment and merges with the hot air at the rear.
Control
The cooling units are individually controlled providing complete diversity of switchgear and management, but interlinked in an N+1 configuration with multiple internal room thermostats and humidity monitors. Incoming air is delivered at 18-22 degrees at a humidity level of 30 – 35%, typical of daytime levels on a summer’s day.
CCS Leeds data centres offer a range of bespoke hosting solutions for any size business, with resilient and reliable data storage in a variety of locations throughout the UK. For more information about our UK data centres, the Leeds data centre or UK data storage solutions, simply contact us online today.