Re: FN-FORUM: hosting for the UK?

date posted 25th January 2008 12:12

On Monday 21 January 2008 17:34:47 Dom Latter wrote:
> On Sunday 20 January 2008 13:44:04 Nathan Vingoe wrote:
> > As a few of us on list do, I run a hosting business.. I am UK based,
> > the servers are UK based, in our own data centre, not resellers or
>
> Really? To do a data centre properly you need backup generators,
> at least two physically separate fibre connections to different networks,
> and 24 hour security. Etc. This doesn't come cheap. If it hasn't got
> the above you shouldn't call it a data centre, in my opinion.
>
> So, where's the data centre and what are the specs? Because your hosting
> business website has no details.

I'll take that as a "no" then, as in "there is no data centre".

If anybody's wondering, if you can be bothered to do the requisite work
with Google and other internet tools, you too will decide that Nathan's
company having its own "data centre" is implausible.