[ubuntu-uk] [OT] Datacentres outside London

[Kris Douglas]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 17:13, Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com> wrote:
> On 07/10/2008, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:
>> I'm looking for recommendations for data centres outside of London,
>
> You might also consider names.co.uk in Worcester, another former
> employer, although I'm not sure quite how much (if any) of their
> server hosting is actually done in Worcester.
>
> --
> Andrew Oakley andrew at aoakley.com
>
>
> On 07/10/2008, Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com> wrote:
>> On 07/10/2008, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm looking for recommendations for data centres outside of London,
>>> preferably close to the England/Wales border or in Wales itself.
>>
>> I'd recommend against FastHosts in Gloucester, as their customer
>> service is abysmal.
>>
>> Star Internet in Gloucester are a sister company to the MessageLabs IT
>> security empire and excellent. Although they have London datacentres,
>> you can specifically request to have your kit based in their
>> Gloucester Barnwood datacentre.
>>
>> http://www.star.net.uk/star/home/hostingoverview.stml
>>
>> I'm biased since ML are my former employers.
>>
>> You might find a warm fuzzy glow from knowing that MessageLabs offices
>> in Gloucester host the Gloucestershire Linux User Group meetings (do
>> come along, next meeting 21st Oct evening), providing us with free
>> seminar room, free coffee and blazingly, blazingly fast free wifi
>> (ideal for downloading distro DVDs, and yes they really don't mind).
>>
>> I have a Virtual Private Server hosted in BlueSquare in Maidenhead,
>> Berks. It's west of the M25, but not by much. I'm based in the
>> Cotswolds and connectivity has always been superb.
>>
>> http://www.bluesquaredata.com/
>>
>> My VPS is through CheapVPS, part of Verio:
>> http://www.cheapvps.co.uk/
>> http://www.vaserv.com/
>>
>> Server, should you wish to run ping tests:
>> isis.aoakley.com
>>
>> Sample 10 meg file stored on my server:
>> http://www.aoakley.com/misc/novellini-bowser-20070724-1800.3gp
>>
>> The server runs Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Oakley andrew at aoakley.com
>>
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There is also Bytemark, They have a couple of spots in manchester,
Internet Facilitators Ltd – Reynolds House / TelecityGroup Williams
House


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