At Orbit3, we believe that open-source technology is the future of the Internet. This allows us to deliver low cost solutions whilst relying on the stability of open-source technology.

All our servers are housed in secure UK co-location, which ensures that you receive a reliable and fast connection to your sites at all times, our servers are all built to allow full backup and redundancy.

Orbit3 is constantly striving to provide the best available hardware to serve your websites, which is why we only use systems with a specification no lower than 2GHZ and 1GB of memory.

Apache

The Apache HTTP is the number one choice for serving web pages across the web. It is an open source project with a huge following.

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The Netcraft Web Server Survey found that more than 67% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache (as of March 2004), thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.

According to the SecuritySpace Web Server Survey (March 2004), Apache accounts for more than 70% of the web sites in the Internet.

Linux

Linux is the primary choice of Operating System for web hosting companies. It offers flexibility, enhanced security and all the benefits of the open source Community.