It's vitally important to us that all our web services are available whenever you need them
for your critical business processes. That's why we have invested in a secure infrastructure
with high levels of redundancy in every critical system. We have a minimum target of 99.7%
availability, and hope to far exceed this as you can see from our live uptime statistics below.
Our data centre employs an array of fully load balanced servers. If a server should develop
a fault, all the traffic from that server will be re-routed to an alternative server within
just five seconds, so your business can continue with no interruptions.
Uptime statistics
We constantly monitor the availability of our services and actually pay for a third party to monitor our services. The live
statistics from these checks are shown below, together with the current overall uptime for 2012.
Last update: 4 Feb 16:17
We take the security of your data very seriously. We employ the latest techniques in both
physical and network security to ensure that no-one can gain unauthorized access to any
of your data.
All of our web services are available over an SSL-secured HTTPS connection as well as the
standard HTTP connection. Just replace http://webservices.data-8.co.uk with
https://webservices.data-8.co.uk in any URLs.
There is a performance overhead involved in using HTTPS connections, so we recommend using
standard HTTP for most situations.
