I'm expanding overseas, but I don't know what the good dedicated server rental places are. Can people please recommend some good ones in the UK and Australia? Much appreciated.

www.dedicatedservers.com.au

That doesn't look too great. Their site looks half complete.

Can people please share other sites?

in the uk take a look at poundhost.com

they've just built their own dc, and so far ive no complaints at all. They're fast with installations, very helpful and a lot better priced than some of the supposed better companies based in london. infrastructures good, peering is good, support and communication of issues all great too

I would say PoundHost for support and price, but i find the network speeds lacking alot, i am in the UK and i was getting very bad network speeds and my ISP said that my line was running fine.

If you want a test file feel free to PM me

Originally posted by ChrisMayhew
I would say PoundHost for support and price, but i find the network speeds lacking alot, i am in the UK and i was getting very bad network speeds and my ISP said that my line was running fine.

If you want a test file feel free to PM me

When you say lacking, what do you mean? Is the latency poor or is it the actual bandwidth you recieve? I would be very interested if you could post some info on this.

I am in the uk and have pmed him, will post back with result.

--edit--

he cannot recieve pm's yet, so havent pmed him.

I was provided with a testfile and got 122kb/sec on my 1mbit connection, so speeds seem fine to me.

A very good australian dedicated server host is: www . ozservers . com . au

Stupid spaces, just because I've recently joined I can't post URLs :(

check also poundhost.com, very nice network and Maff@WHT is really good also :)

What are you looking to use the dedicated server for in the UK?!

Take a look at www.webhostchat.co.uk -- a bunch of good UK hosts hang out there and you will get some good quotes.

Can people please recommend some good ones in the UK and Australia


what o/s , what spec, what level of transfer, how many servers ...
the more info, the better the recommendation meeting your requietrements

for UK try
4dhosting.com
kdawebservices.co.uk
securahosting.com
etc

Originally posted by Unleaded
A very good australian dedicated server host is: www . ozservers . com . au

Stupid spaces, just because I've recently joined I can't post URLs :(

They only have a 2mbit link ;)

No they don't - they have a 2MB to Comindico for incoming and a 1Gigabit link straight to the Optus Backbone, both which they route over to Optus via BGP if utilisation goes over 70%, which it hasn't for a while (In a few months it’ll be 1GB in and out). Protection against DDoS attacks is done at upstream NOC's and routers.

FUD dismissed.

Either way, it’s a better network that having a box in the ‘el cheapo’ Brisbane powertel/datafast datacenter, which if recent events seem to dictate – has absolutely no redundancy at all, let alone anybody in the NOC (if you could call it that) to even fix problems in an acceptable amount of time.