Specifications

Servers and network

The servers are connected to the Equinix AM3 network, the best in the Netherlands, with redundancy in power supply and cooling in the data center for guaranteed uptime. In addition, it has a high-performance 40 GbE network with short connections to other Tier 1 networks, which ensures very fast connections with very low latency for visitors. The servers are built with Dell EMC and AMD EPYC CPUs for extra speed.

Netwerk connections

Storage and memory

A common bottleneck for website speed is the hard disk. Samsung Enterprise SSD NVMe hard drives are many times faster than ordinary SSD hard drives offered by most providers, allowing files to be loaded at lightning speed, which translates into highly performant websites. Moreover, due to the large amount of memory (RAM), a lot of data can be accessed even faster, which also gives a huge speed gain.

Caching

The hosting has several layers of caching enabled by default. For instance, every website gets its own object cache (Memcache) for storing visitor sessions and database query results, its own page cache (Nginx) to reuse dynamically generated pages, the visitor's browser cache is used by default so repeated visits are much faster, and the disk cache and opcode cache are used to load dynamic pages even faster. This is set up automatically for WordPress.

Security

Unique is my focus on security to keep your personal data secret and defend your website from hackers. By using only Linux in combination with SELinux, a security module developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), I am one step ahead of hackers. Moreover, the servers follow all the advice of OWASP, a cyber security body, and the SCAP profile from the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Furthermore, multi-layer cybersecurity is applied and all users are mutually shielded, so that any intrusions can only cause minimal damage. And finally, the latest SSL/TLS certificates are always used for all connections and IP addresses with many incorrect login attempts are blocked (this also applies to WordPress).

Command line

Email

An advanced email system is used so that all email is secure and only the recipient can read your email. Using a neural network, spam can be effectively prevented and it automatically learns to recognize the latest types of spam. Also, using modern email techniques (such as SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DANE, MTA-STS, etc), the unauthorized use of your domain name for sending emails is blocked (email spoofing), so that your customers can trust your emails.