UKFast.Net Engineers 'Self Healing' Network

29 December 2005

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Through a combination of in-house systems, Manchester based bandwidth provider, UKFast.Net says it has created a 'self healing' network.

The quest for zero disruption led UKFast technicians to design and build their own advanced Load Balancers to distribute processing and communication activity evenly across the server network. It's claimed that the effect of this is that no single device ever gets overwhelmed.

UKFast's technical director, Neil Lathwood says "The challenge is creating an infrastructure that avoids problems by making its own decisions. With some clients, it's often difficult the predict the number of requests that will be issued to their servers. We need to be fully prepared to keep massively popular systems online."

But the machines haven't quite taken over just yet. Automated 24-hour monitoring means that, in the event of a server problem, technicians receive warning alerts via email and SMS to deal with the initial fault. Optimum efficiency is quickly reached again and the server slips cleanly back into the loop.

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