Originally established in 1998 as a support service to Lycos Europe, M8 INTERNET commenced trading on Monday 06 January 2003 The company provides basic, cheap, and reliable website hosting Using only the highest quality servers based in the United Kingdom Current Facilities The data centre offers a secure, resilient environment for our web hosting platform Based in a secure facility the data centre is built to an N+1 specification, so that if any particular service fails - e.g. electricity or air conditioning - another backup service automatically takes over the failed service's job Power Dual power feeds enter the building at different points and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) ensure that all power to the server area is clean and spike free In the event of a power outage the UPS can take the entire data centre load for up to five minutes However within 20 seconds our redundant generators are able to indefinitely take on the entire data centre load Security The data centre is manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so that if anything goes wrong engineers can respond quickly and effectively to the problem Access to the data centre is via a master access list using Smart Card authentication Access to the data centre is by authorisation only CCTV operates throughout the facility