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Our multi-homed network is the result of years of work and around a quarter of a million pounds total investment in core routing and access equipment. It means we are able to route our customers' traffic through the best path for their visitors, and are able to continually control our own routing policies.
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Design principles
We have aimed for two very simple principles when designing our network: that it should be capable of taking the most abusive traffic patterns that we have encountered, and that it should be capable of withstanding the failure of any single piece of core equipment (routers or distribution switches).
We are a full member of RIPE, the European regional internet registry, and have a total of 20000+ addresses under our direct control .
Designed for abuse
It's an unfortunate fact of planning a commercial hosting network that we couldn't plan simply for the capacity that we expected our customers to need.
Instead we had to budget for abusive traffic patterns that can exceed our normal usage by a factor of 5 or 10. This does also leave plenty of spare capacity for when a customer's site is an unexpected hit.



