Us

Established on a combined 30 years of web hosting, networking and Unix experience, at Portfast we believe we are well positioned to bring you some of the greatest value, highest performing and best supported internet based solutions on the market today. We also don't have shareholders to pay off so we can reinvest our profits in the infrastructure in order to maintain our high quality of service.

Our hardware

As part of our commitment to quality and resilience, our internet hosting platform is constructed from servers made by Sun Microsystems and IBM, with full remote "lights out" management and linked to the backbone at 100Mbit or 1Gbit/s by Cisco switches. These in turn are connected to multiple upstream routers leading to a variety of different peering and transit providers.

Our software

We base our operations on the Linux and FreeBSD operating system platforms, with industry standard packages like Apache, Perl, Exim and BIND providing the services you use. The rest of the software which drives your Portfast hosted solution is developed in-house. Extensive planning has gone in to what you see here, with the ultimate aim being to save you time and effort.

The rest

As well as great hosting, we also have 'Frequently Asked Questions' guides in the member area to ensure that you can configure your computer to take advantage of our services with the minimum of fuss. If these don't answer your questions, there is also a ticketing system with which you can open a query directly to our technical team who will be more than happy to assist.