Architecture
The Tucows Email Service platform is high performance. But what gives it the edge? Three basic premises guided us as we designed and built it.
- Reliability: Going down or losing email is not an option. We used server virtualization technology to build in reliability and ease of maintenance. The service is housed in a Tier IV data center to ensure the most reliable connection to the Internet possible. We also have extensive, real-time, 24/7 status monitoring both at the data center and in our own Network Operations Centre (NOC).
- Scalability: Our service has to be able to grow. The system can scale to tens of millions of mailboxes with all the associated storage and email scanning required.
- Performance: It needs to be fast. Tucows Email Service is extremely high performance and built for speed in every way. From multiple gigabit Ethernet connections, to powerful virtualized servers, to the latest in load balancers, it's built to get the job done with speed and efficiency.
Servers & Services
Our email service runs on virtual servers. This allows for ease of management in upgrading the environment's components, and in adding additional capacity. Outages are minimized even in the case of unexpected hardware failures. In the case of planned hardware outages, the virtual servers can be transparently relocated to different physical hardware with no service interruption.
Network
Our email service has access to multiple backbone networks and our datacenter partners ensure that our service is always accessible.
