[Box Backup] OT: Server colocation

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

On 7/13/07, James O'Gorman <james at netinertia.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:16:16PM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> >  On 7/13/07, James O'Gorman <james at netinertia.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > My colo provider have this evening announced they have been taken ove=
r
> > > by another company which will mean servers being moved from London
> > > Docklands to Maidenhead.
> >
> >  Who's that then?
>
> Black Cat Networks. I would post a link to the email but the archives
> are subscribers only.
>
> > > So, does anyone have any recomendations/experience with other colo
> > > providers in London?
> >
> >  Several - depends on what you want - I've used several in the past, am
> >  using one n particular at the moment, and have some other contacts
> >  too.  How much are you paying?  What's the bandwidth cost?  How much
> >  power do you need?
>
> I was originally paying =A350/month with BCN for a 1U box, 100GB transfer
> (50p for each GB used over that), up to 0.5A, serial console, remote
> power cycle, as my IPv4 addresses as one can justify and an IPv6 /64.
>
> They bumped their prices up to =A375/month sometime last year due to
> RedBus doing so.
>
> Something similar would be nice :-)

One of my clients can match that, at =A370.00; Would be in HEX, so not
far to go :).

Interested, ping me off list.

> James

S.