Re: FN-FORUM: hosting for the UK?

date posted 25th January 2008 19:43

I agree. I would go further, and say that a good datacentre should
have two UPS backed power supplies, each rack is equipped with duel
power sources, and any servers that support two PSU's plug into both.

two seperate bandwidth providers, with special effort to make sure
the providers come from different Telecom exchanges.

I worked for EDS designing datacentres, so when I set up mine, I did
it to the best I could afford, but provide the service EDS can't get
unless they made their employees have a majority share holding, its
mine, and I know most of my customers by name, and configuration.

As for where, we are based in Cambridge, off two backbone providers.

But for most this is techy detail, that I don't generally go
into.. the key to me, and it seems 99% of my customers, is we are
helpful for our customers, no fixed packages that give you most of
what you want, but not quite that bit you need. Our server
management software allows us full configuration control, so after we
make a change for a specific client, its stored and reproducible from
one click.

N


At 16:34 21/01/2008, you 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.
>
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