Co-location

HEAnet co-location services facilitate clients who wish to install equipment in a managed data centre facility. Co-location equipment is directly connected to the HEAnet national backbone and is served by an excellent suite of environmental, power and management services. In addition to regular IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, clients may also make use of the HEAnet National Backbone Extension. This allows the deployment of Layer 2 Ethernet circuits between their own network and equipment hosted in the facility, providing high speed LAN interconnections with remote equipment. For more information on our co-location offering and associated charging model click here.

Website Hosting

HEAnet provide website hosting services to interest groups belonging to the Irish higher education and research community. HEAnet currently offer three levels of hosting services designed to meet your needs from basic static content to advanced data-based driven sites. For further details and pricing information click here.

Website Hot Standby

HEAnet offer clients failover protection for their primary web servers. This is achieved by providing an alternate web server that either mirrors the client's primary web server or displays a cut down copy of the site they want protected. Clients have two options in relation to making their site highly available via this service: Zero Management where the master server automatically pulls the latest version of their website without their involvement; or Self Management where the client manages the content of the hot standby site.

Wiki Hosting

In addition to regular website hosting, the HEAnet web hosting platform supports websites which require collaborative development of the website content. Wiki Hosting attracts a hosting charge.

VLE Hosting

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) facilitate the management of educational courses, especially by helping teachers and learners with course administration. The HEAnet web hosting platform supports the very popular Moodle software, which has many features including Forums, Content management, Quizes, Surveys and Glossaries. VLE Hosting attracts a hosting charge.

Software Mirroring

HEAnet operate a mirror service to mirror free software and content relevant to the academic community. Currently, we mirror the RedHat Linux Distribution, the Apache Project and the Linux Kernel; however we continue to expand our base of mirrors. You can browse the server for a full listing of what we offer: ftp.heanet.ie (FTP and HTTP). By downloading large content from your local mirror, you get faster downloads and help save international bandwidth. This service is available to the general public.