Country Connect are an Internet Service Provider (ISP) based in South Wales. Their journey started over a decade ago, when their founder, Mark Tomlinson took the initiative to spread a high speed internet connection throughout his village. So you can see that technical knowhow goes right to the top of the Country Connect leadership team. And yet they love working with the Beaty Consultancy team to help bolster their back-end technical teams when it comes to Linux/Unix and Cloud solutions.
Unix Network Backend
There is an awful lot more to keeping customers’ internet connections safe than you might think. When you pop in an address into your web browser, that name needs to be translated to an IP address (think of that like a phone number for a website) before anything will happen. That’s known as the Domain Name Service, or DNS for short. Country Connect needed a robust DNS server to handle these translations, at scale, for their customers.
The Country Connect team decided upon a new and novel DNS server which had exacting requirements in order to run optimally, and while they did have a huge talent pool internally from which to pull, they decided that bringing in the cloud networking specialists from Beaty Consultancy would be a great benefit.
Our team deployed the service, along with system hardening to keep attackers out, and backups and a Disaster Recovery plan, because disasters do happen!
Hosting and Cloud
Internet connectivity isn’t the only thing Country Connect does though, oh no. They also host blazing fast websites for their many small and medium sized business customers all over Wales and the UK. While they do have a big presence in many geographically diverse datacentres, they decided that AWS offered the right blend of elasticity, reliability and speed that their clients had come to expect of their brand.
The Beaty Consultancy team got to work deploying a tried-and-tested infrastructure cloud-native design which forms the backbone of many applications built following the principles of the AWS Well Architected Framework. This ensures uptime, speed, security and cost-optimisation. The web hosting environment has been running happily for Mark and his ever expanding team of staff and customers for many years now.
We love working with established technical teams to sprinkle our cloud magic into their existing incredible businesses, and I’m sure Beaty Consultancy and Country Connect will work together for many years to come.
