(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Ultra-secure data center and managed services provider The Bunker Secure Hosting (www.thebunker.net) has completed its fourth round of financing, raising £1 million (about $1.6 million) of new funds entirely from existing shareholders.
According to The Bunker’s Monday announcement, the funds will be used to continue the company’s infrastructure upgrade and development program including the further development of data areas at both its Ash and Newbury data centers. The Bunker’s data centers are located near London in what were formerly military Nuclear Bunkers built to house the UK’s air defense systems. They have been re-purposed to provide managed hosting, and outsourced IT and data center solutions.
“I am delighted with the outcome of this latest round of financing,” The Bunker chief executive officer Peregrine Newton said in a statement. “The management team see this as another positive endorsement of the progress of the company. The Bunker is now a very profitable business and these funds will allow us to accelerate our upgrade plans and continue expansion. It is tremendous to have such a supportive shareholder base behind us and to be able to draw on such a deep pool of expertise in finance, technology and business growth and development.”
The Bunker team includes recognized experts in security and cryptography renowned for their work on Apache-SSL. The Bunker is ISO 27001 and PCI DSS accredited and follows ITILv3 best practice and Prince 2 management standards. And while The Bunker is physically isolated, the in-house networks team and selected network providers let it deliver a multi-homed, no-single-point-of-failure transit network between its sites and the Internet.
The idea of re-purposing a military facility as a data center, while seemingly radical, has gained a certain degree of attention in the hosting space. CyberBunker (www.cyberbunker.com), a former NATO bunker outside the small town of Kloetinge in the south of the Netherlands, has provided hosting for the likes of controversial Swedish BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay (www.thepiratebay.com).
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