Looking for DC in UK for colocation

zafouhar

I'm looking for recommendations on a relatively cheap but stable DC in the UK that provides colocation services and hopefully with 24x7 support (all the DC's I found provide support only within business hours with charges for out of hours support).

By support I mean things like connecting a KVM if needed for example.

J1021

What is your budget?

What DCs have you looked at? Most in the UK are 24/7.

VortexMagnus

Clouvider seems to have a good reputation for single server colo.

Might want to speak to Jon at NorthHosts too, he seems like a nice guy.

Clouvider

Budget ? Location?

Happy to help in London ;-)

zafouhar

@Jack said:
What is your budget?

What DCs have you looked at? Most in the UK are 24/7.

Yes seems i've been looking into the wrong DC's maybe as they all talk about support within business hours.

@Clouvider said:
Budget ? Location?

Happy to help in London ;-)

Location would be London preferably, budget is somewhat flexible at around 70GBP/month for 1U colo just to provide a starting base. I'll PM you though with further details.

northhosts

If you want budget colo we can offer it from £20 per month.
Jon

northhosts

Yes we do, out of hours is call out. However it's free. We also provide perminent kvm if needed.

AnthonySmith

zafouhar said: I'm looking for recommendations on a relatively cheap but stable DC in the UK

I know it is hard to take someones word as absolute, but having used 5 DC's in the UK and 8 in Europe I can say absolutely hands down in terms of attitude, support, general quality and professionalism that you just wont beat @Clouvider

They just 'get it' and the network is vastly superior to any of the similarly priced or even more expensive DC's

You can test the network with my LG if you want http://lg1.inceptionhosting.com

I had some suspected faulty ram in one of my servers (despite passing all tests that was all it could be) the Dom literally drove to a local supplier and swapped it for me within a few hours just to confirm or deny that was the problem which he was under no obligation to do but did it because it mattered to me.

J1021

AnthonySmith said: Dom literally drove to a local supplier and swapped it for me within a few hours

I wouldn't expect any provider I've used to go to this length, as they should be keeping spares on-site.

Clouvider

Thank you very much for the very kind words @AnthonySmith. Really appreciate :-)!

@kcaj said:

AnthonySmith said: Dom literally drove to a local supplier and swapped it for me within a few hours

I wouldn't expect any provider I've used to go to this length, as they should be keeping spares on-site.

Not if one needs a different model of a very particular specification and the entire set of it to eliminate a distant possibility, just in case. The Customer satisfaction, and so uptime, is of paramount importance to us.

OhMyMy

Only on let can someone get criticized for doing a good job

AnthonySmith

@kcaj said:

AnthonySmith said: Dom literally drove to a local supplier and swapped it for me within a few hours

I wouldn't expect any provider I've used to go to this length, as they should be keeping spares on-site.

Yep I needed something different and not kept on site.

ratherbak3d

kcaj said: I wouldn't expect any provider I've used to go to this length, as they should be keeping spares on-site.

For dedicated servers sure, isn't this about co-location? Maybe I'm missing something.