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On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Edwin Rhodes wrote:
Hi I am interested in co-location in devon does anyone have a list of co-location centres in devon?
This question's been asked here a few times - and the answer is usually the same - SW telcoms (and be prepared to pay through the nose for it), or ... not a lot.
Mountwise looks promising, but don't hold your breath, as I suspect it's still as empty as an empty thing: http://www.mountwisedatacentre.co.uk/ and even when it's ready, I don't think it'll be cheap, given the cost of the backhaul to London.
Then there was a place out by Plymouth Airport - I think there used to be list member here who worked for them - who did email me last time I asked, but when I got in-touch with them, they weren't quite ready - at least not to the extent that I'd require for my own stuff. (ie. only one Internet feed and that was from Teleworst I think) I've forgotten their names now, and google is failing me.
There's a few places and companies in Bristol (http://www.hns.net/ is run by a friend of mine, but there are many others) and further East (and North - Manchester for example), but outside London you do pay for bandwidth or at least the fibre over the distance because at the end of the day, everything goes back to London (with a smidgen going to Manchester)
Building a proper DC with redundant power and diversely routed fibre is expensive, and hard...
I co-lo in Sheffield which is a stupid distance away, (it wasn't that far when I lived in Bristol - 9 years ago!) but I've known the guys who run it for 15 years or so and it's never let me down, but it's a bit more expensive than London in that I pay a bit more for bandwidth. (However I don't pay for power - yet - and I have shelves rather than racks to put my kit on, so cooling is easier and I can host mini/tower type servers as well as traditional rack kit)
Unless you've got a specific, dedicated need for your own server in a co-lo, what you might want to look at is maybe just taking server space off someone else and letting them manage the server - e.g. a VPS type service. Then you won't really care where it is as it's plumbed into the Internet for you and someone else is making sure it's going... That's probably what I'd do now, if I didn't already have a couple of dozen boxes out there... (Actually, I'd probably do something else completely different, but that's another story!!!)
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