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12-07-2005, 10:41 AM #1Junior Guru
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Building our own Data Centre
Any thoughts, advice or news regarding building a data centre in uk.
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12-07-2005, 10:45 AM #2Retired Moderator
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What sort of thing are you looking to do (how big)? What's your budget, what's your current experience. It's a fairly open question and it's hard for someone to just come along and tell you everything thats needed!
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12-07-2005, 10:54 AM #3Junior Guru
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We want to start initially with 20 servers.
Budget is arround £5000
We are providing hosting for sometime now, but new to building our own data centre obviously.
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12-07-2005, 11:09 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Colocate or get rack space. Your not building a datacenter for £5000.
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12-07-2005, 11:09 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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To be honest, £5000 isn't going to build you much of a data center. There are SO MANY variables, expensive ones, that you have to take into consideration and £5000 is just not going to cover it.
You're better off spending that £5000 on colocating the 20 servers...RACK911 Labs | Penetration Testing | https://www.RACK911Labs.ca
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12-07-2005, 11:15 AM #6Junior Guru
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thsnks for your advice fellas
any ideas how much it would cost for lets say 20 servers in your view.
and where is good place to buy bandwidth.
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12-07-2005, 11:27 AM #7Junior Guru
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The pricing is still pretty variable, if they are 1u servers you can get 20 in 1/2 rack, if they are 2u you'll need a whole rack... Your best bet is to do a search of the colocation forum on data centers in the UK.
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12-07-2005, 11:29 AM #8Carpe Diem
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Not sure I understand the question. You have been hosting for 'sometime' now but don't know where to buy bandwidth?
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12-07-2005, 11:39 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by Defcon|Rich
Try contacting www.goscomb.co.uk and www.ikcs.net for some transit.0
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12-07-2005, 11:42 AM #10Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by Defcon|Rich
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12-07-2005, 11:49 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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lets see registration date 11/26/2005 (through Hostgator), stolen testimonials, busy support forums (1 member, 1 post) and the funniest of all is on the front page of the support forum "One Thousand new customers for WSFEB on 06/12/2005"
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12-07-2005, 11:51 AM #12Junior Guru
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12-07-2005, 11:53 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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oops, did I say stolen testimonials and not mention all the text is stolen.
what am I trying to prove? fraudTechnical Advisor for new A&E Series The Killing Season
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12-07-2005, 11:58 AM #14Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by Dave B
Regarding the 1000 customers of WSFEB. These are old customers of our hosting company which was run by another name and we have transfered them to out new servers rescently.
Please Can you tell us the site whcih has same testimonials as our website.
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12-07-2005, 12:01 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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12-07-2005, 12:03 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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12-07-2005, 12:05 PM #17WHT Addict
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Google matches both of the testimonials on your front page to a site called webhosting.uk.com, which attributes them to other people. Either you've ripped it from them or they've ripped it from you.
This is one of the oddest threads I've read in recent times. If you were serious about building a data centre, surely you'd realise that land alone costs hundreds of thousands of pounds in even the cheapest of areas in the UK? To build an entirely new data centre would run into millions...0
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12-07-2005, 12:08 PM #18Carpe Diem
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Tough crowd
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12-07-2005, 12:10 PM #19Junior Guru
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We will contact this company regarding these testimonials.
Thanks for your help.
I know somebody from that company worked with the old company which we had.0
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12-07-2005, 12:17 PM #20Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by Jay Cornwall
We are trying to hire a place rather than buying it.
Thanks for your advice.0
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12-07-2005, 12:22 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by wsfeb
That would make sense (to a newbie) if that was all that was stolen and the only company you stole from.
BTW, you failed to answer the question about the previous name of your "company"
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12-07-2005, 12:42 PM #22Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by Dave B
Infact your website has nothing original or interesting so you better concentrate on yuor backyard.
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12-07-2005, 12:45 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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Maybe you should not have made the claim if you were not prepared to answer inquiries about it. Your fear to answer the posters simple question(which you brought up) and the childish remark in regards to my own site speaks volumes.
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12-07-2005, 01:52 PM #25Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by Dave B
So there is nothing to discuss.
Our message was simply to hear anything about building a cheap and basic data centre and you twisted the issue.
And because of our business interests we dont want to tell the previous name of this business, which in our view in totally fair.
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