Hi guys, looking to move to new company for deidcated and from everything I have read ServerMatrix doesn't come any higher recomended. But I was dissapointed with their prices for hardware firewalls and that you can't configure them yourself?!? You also can only have 1 server for each firewall, which can get a little expensive.

I'm looking for good price, good spec server with hardware firewall that can connect multiple servers (4) and good backup solutions. Will consider US, but would like something in the UK if possible.

Am I still in the dream world? Your comments please.

Regards,
Graham.

Your needs would be much better met if you co-lo'd at a datacenter with your own hardware IMO, as most dedicated server providers are not willing to let you control their hardware. You'll find this at almost every dedicated server provider, I'm afraid.

Yep, Colo seem quite expensive here in the UK. Don't mind investing in the hardware.

Don't you have the same problem with COLO though? Do they allow you to buy your own hardware Firewalls? Or are you talking about a PCI firewall?

Cheers,
Graham

a colo allows most (all?) hardware, as long as you own it, maintain it, etc (this is from my understanding, anyways). The DC would have no right to tell you howto use YOUR hardware ;)

If you're willing to pay for the firewall & rackspace needed, I can see why it would be a problem?

~Francisco