Can anyone suggest a 24/7 UK Colo NOC, with good bandwidth, reasonable pricing, and smart people.

And if you know of one in China, that too. :)

Be prepared for high bandwidth prices in the UK, for quality bandwidth you're looking at a minimum of $10gb, and that when you source the best deals.

Most of the major Tier 1 providers have NOCs in London (usually dockside), Exodus, Global Frontier, Above.net.

We're currently in discussion with Energis Squared at the moment for co-location prices in the UK.

If you're interested I can keep you in the loop on prices etc.

Look for companies in Redbus Interhouse, in London.

Colo space is very cheap there, when you go to a rack or more, and as its carrier neutral, there are bargains to be made on bandwidth as well, although its all in Mb/s rather than GB/pm.

Regards,

Tony Lucas

Rack or more with MB/s instead of GB/s is what I am looking for. Any names you can suggest, I am looking for a well connected teir 2 and not a Tier they all suck.

Jay,

Here is a list of companies that advertize colocation services in London Area. Details on the companies can be found at http://www.colosource.com

Good luck,

Your ColoSearch has produced the following results:

Many companies list Corporate Office or NOC as primary business location but all have facilities within your search parameters. Specifics on additional facility locations can be found in the listing detail.

1. @Hotlinks Server Colocation & Leased Lines (UK ISP) - East Finchley, London - +44 (0) 208 883 0000 Detailed Information
Hotlinks Internet Service provider, providers of quality services such as UK Dialup access, Domain Registration, Webspace, Secure Hosting, Leased Lines, Server Colocation UK, Server Colocation US

2. CityReach International, Ltd. - London , London - +44 (0) 20 7515 17 Detailed Information
Setting the Standards for Secure and Spacious Environments Our highly secure, hardened facilities are designed solely for the purpose of housing and maintaining sensitive, mission-critical equipment.

3. COLT Internet - London, London - + 44 20 78635264 Detailed Information
No description available.

4. Globix - London, London - ++44 207 908 8069 Detailed Information
Globix is a Tier 1 ISP with multiple purpose built data centers based around the US and UK. Globix is providing Mission Critical Ebusiness solutions to Corporates, Banks, ISPs, Telcos, Startups, Syst

5. GX Networks Ltd - London, London - 0800 056 6323 Detailed Information
GX Networks offers a variety of server hosting options that include the server hardware and software, but, for those customers who require both a server tuned to their own specific a

6. Interxion Headquarters - Oude Meer, Oude Meer - +31 (0)20 880 7600 Detailed Information
Interxion is in the business of building, managing and constantly improving the European internet structure, providing our customers with connectivity solutions that help them run their core business

7. IP Powerhouse - London, London - +44 (0)20 7529 4620 Detailed Information
Building Management We offer 24x7x365 facilities management staff, have service level arrangements with OEMs on major plant items over the facility's total life and carry out regular plant test cycl

8. IXEurope - London, London - +44 (0) 0207 689 140 Detailed Information
IXFastRack™ is designed to provide instant access to a network or marketplace through IXEurope’s unique and innovative service. It delivers ready-to-use rack systems, singly or in multiple form, pre-c

9. IXEurope - West Drayton, London - 0207 689 1400 Detailed Information
EUROPES PREMIER NEUTRAL COLOCATION COMPANY. IXEurope is driven to provide our customers the colocation facilities they need. Each of our datacentres is built to exacting, rigourous standards. Our s

10. Londoncolo - London, London - +44 020 7377 1964 Detailed Information
General colo and web space facility in Central London (UK)

11. Mailbox Internet Ltd. - London, London - 020 7371 8558 Detailed Information
Based in Fulham, Mailbox Internet pioneered low-cost colocation at its Fulham datacentre. Linked via redundant fibre to core routers in Telehouse Europe, the bazaar of server hardware at Fulham has be

12. Pinpoint - london, london - +44 973 194 Detailed Information
Pinpoint offers multi carrier colo space at our own 5 story building central London (UK)

13. TeleCity - London, London - +44 (0)207 512 3500 Detailed Information
TeleCity is the leading European carrier neutral provider of colocation services. We offer services to ISPs, telcos, ASPs, dot coms and corporates. We host LINX at this facility.

14. Telecity - London, London - +44 (0)161 2267643 Detailed Information
TeleCity is the leading European carrier neutral provider of colocation services. We offer services to ISPs, telcos, ASPs, dot coms and corporates.

15. Telecity - London, London - +44 (0)161 2267643 Detailed Information
TeleCity is the leading European carrier neutral provider of colocation services. We offer services to ISPs, telcos, ASPs, dot coms and corporates.

16. WorldCom International - London, London - +44 (0) 20 7675 6306 Detailed Information
WorldCom offers a complete set of fully integrated voice, data and Internet communications services over its own metropolitan, national and international facilities to customers throughout the world.

I looked there, non of those impress me.

[Edited by jayglate on 03-06-2001 at 11:41 AM]

You might want to consider the Netherlands for colocation. Prices are a bit lower than in the UK and the connection doesn't differ much from the UK.

Just drop me a note if you want to know more.

Arnoud

What are you looking for specifically??

Kevin

Of those companies, they all charge for ips, they are tier1 or/and have bandwidth prices threw the roof.

I need:
1) 24/7 Live Support
2) Unlimited IPs (within ARIN Guidlines)
3) Tier 2, with multipe tier 1 connection
4) Reasonable Bandwidth Pricing.

JAy, you are not going to get IPs lik eArin dishes them out, as in Europe it is Ripe that hands them out and they are very strict about it. IP based virtual hosting is a big no no for them.

I am based in the UK and have needed web hosting services for the past 3 years. In my experience the UK hosts offer very bad value in comparison to there US counterparts. I resently had a very bad experience with Positive-Internet who suspended my account because I was attacked my hackers. The did not release my doamin name for 5 days, and even now have not given me access (FTP or Telnet) to my files. Sorry I am moaning.

I have used colocation services in the UK and I found that it would take me a whole day most it is spent in a train in order to change any hardware within my server or I could take the gamble of the postal or parcel service. One of the problems I found is that when a server was damaged which did happen on two occasions the postal service and hosting company would blame each other. So I decided to transport the server myself which waited alot of time and expense.

My honest appinion, I have no axe to grind (except against Positive-Internet) is to either buy a server through a vendor on ebay, Linux VA are good and send it directly to the colocation in the US say http://www.dtwebworks.com seem to have good offers. If I was you then I would just you for a dedicated server (i.e. lease a server). Some providers offer reasonable upgrade plans and the risk to you is greatly released.

Ben

Jay is looking to expand his business, they already have a US outfit.

Also, Energis doesn't monitor bandwidth, they just give you a 10mb/s port on the switch - But I have yet to receive the small print from them regarding this or IP address issues.

Have you had any prices yet from energis as I was abou to contact them to get prices and details for co-location

No, I am looking for good prices. Havn't found any yet.

Are energis prices not good then ?

I have not gotten a quote from them what is there URL??

http://www.pol.co.uk/ is the shortest way. The details from Energis should be here in the morning hopefully.

It looks promising depending on IP charges and actual rack space charges. We wouldn't even consider IP based hosting because you just can't do it under RIPE if you want to make a living, IPs for nameservers and that's it as far as we are concerned for IPs.

Karl keep us informed of the prices you receive and then I will contact them to see if I get any better.

We applied to Ripe 10 days ago for 128IP addresses and it was fairly easy form to fill in it took them 7 days to grant them to us. The main thing is you have to be using half the IP addresses within 1 year and all of them within 2 and it did get rejected the 1st time so just gave more info and no problem.

Originally posted by Ezzee
Karl keep us informed of the prices you receive and then I will contact them to see if I get any better.

We applied to Ripe 10 days ago for 128IP addresses and it was fairly easy form to fill in it took them 7 days to grant them to us. The main thing is you have to be using half the IP addresses within 1 year and all of them within 2 and it did get rejected the 1st time so just gave more info and no problem.

Is this a new rule? We have 112 Ip's on three ranges but only use a fraction of those.

Yes it stated it in the RIPE docs