We’ve moved to Bournemouth

After a bit of instability relating to our physical location, we’ve now settled down nicely in a new office in Bournemouth, Dorset. We’re currently located on the 8th floor of a modern and friendly office building within easy reach of Subway, Dominos and Pizza Express!

One of the best things about our new office is that the datacentre we use to host all our applications is located within the same building. The C4L Bournemouth data centre provides us with a reliable home for all our servers with multiple 10 gigabit uplinks back to London and fully redundant power and temperature control. If we ever need physical access to our infrastructure, it’s just a 6 floor lift ride away from our office!

The aTech Application Cloud

Over the last month or so we’ve been busy designing and implementing our new hosting cloud for hosting our web applications. Designed from the ground up with maximum redundancy in mind, we’ve made every effort to ensure all parts of our infrastructure at at least n+1 redundant which means various services can fail completely without affecting service uptime.

As well as changing our entire server & network infrastructure, we have also relocated all our services from Manchester to Bournemouth to correspond with us moving offices. This means our office is now just a 5 minute drive to the data centre which means if anything should require attention locally, we can be there in a flash. Our team is also local so out of hours emergencies can be responded to very efficiently.

The diagram below shows how we’ve designed our new network:

The new cloud is all ready and waiting for the public launch of Codebase v4 which is due very soon now.