Postcode Anywhere's platform is the most advanced in the industry, built on 10 years’ expertise of delivering data over the web.

Multi-centre hosting

We host from two completely independent data centres. These are from different companies using different hosting providers in different parts of the country. Crucially, these are both live data centres - we don't have a primary and backup – which means both take the load under normal conditions. If one data centre is unavailable, your requests are automatically and seamlessly redirected to the other. Within each data centre we also operate fully redundant clusters to service requests, giving us the performance to deal with the biggest loads 24/7.

24/7 Monitoring and Control

Out operations team monitor the platform 24/7 to make sure we're always on. We monitor usage and traffic to ensure the highest speeds.

Fast

With average transaction times of <15ms (as of February 2010), you can be sure that you'll get your data fast.

No downtime

Our customers demand the highest levels of reliability and availability. Our multi-centre, fault-tolerant infrastructure means that we've achieved over 99.999% uptime over the last 6 years.

Unlike most other providers, we're always there when you need us. We don't have planned downtime - we don't take servers down on a Sunday afternoon to apply service packs! Our in-house command and control systems balance load and help us perform rolling upgrades without interrupting your service.

Security

The web may feel a little like the Wild West at times, and that's why we've spent years developing one of the most sophisticated security systems around.

We provide “by IP” and URL-based security systems that are entirely under your control. You can also set daily usage limits and daily IP limits to really lock things down.

We also constantly analyse usage patterns both on an individual basis and across our entire platform to ensure the highest levels of security are maintained.

We automatically bar certain territories and maintain an ever-growing list of rogue IP addresses.

Finally, we undergo quarterly independent security penetration tests to ensure that our network, firewalls and security systems are as good as they can be.