Burstnet Manchester

eastonch

Would anybody happen to have a contact for somebody who can deal with a colocation deal in Burstnet Manchester UK? The reason I'm picking them over some other companies is that they offer a CiscoGuard DDoS service, but if somebody else has another idea, let me know!

Lee

It's not burstnet any more, they sold their UK arm, can't remember who it is though.

Lee

http://forums.burst.net/showthread.php?4908-Official-BurstNET-UK-UKFast-Statement

It's still them for a couple of months

DomainBop

@W1V_Lee said:
It's not burstnet any more, they sold their UK arm, can't remember who it is though.

UKFast

Lee

@domainbop

Yes that's them, that really big well known firm UKFast. Wait... who the fuck are they?

Infinity

I know a few employees at UKFast, it's a pretty nice operation from what I'm aware. They're mostly aimed at managed hosting though and some other random stuff IIRC.

DomainBop

@W1V_Lee said:
domainbop

Yes that's them, that really big well known firm UKFast. Wait... who the fuck are they?>

I hadn't heard of them before they bought Burst UK but they're big enough to have their own Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKFast and videos http://www.lawrencejones.eu/video/ecommere_expo

Lee

They appear more of a corporate player, maybe this is their play for the SME business.

Jacob

They don't have the cisco guard in the UK fyi, not that it'd help much anyways.

eastonch

So where would you guys suggest UK for DDoS Protection? Looking midlands upwards, i'd like to keep away from London :L

r0t3n

Looked at C4L?

c4l.co.uk/cloud/cloud-services/ddos-protection

Lee

Melbourne?

eastonch

Thanks @R0t3N i've contacted them

Patrick

You can talk to http://www.custodiandc.com (Kent), they're willing to setup ACLs and help 'mitigate'

Note: Bandwidth not cheap

DomainBop

@eastonch said:
So where would you guys suggest UK for DDoS Protection? Looking midlands upwards, i'd like to keep away from London :L

You could always try UKFast... http://www.ukfast.co.uk/ddos-protection.html

Infinity

@eastonch said:
So where would you guys suggest UK for DDoS Protection? Looking midlands upwards, i'd like to keep away from London :L

Really depends on your budget.

r0t3n

@eastonch I know your looking out of London way, but Telstra are good, but they are present in Docklands and Woking.. http://www.telstraglobal.com/our-solutions/hosting-and-security-solutions/security-solutions/global-distributed-denial-of-service-protection

Reece

Well Burstnet.eu's billing portal says UKFast Limited.

SplitIce

Their Cisco Guard only stops floods against one server from interfering with other customers servers. It does little to nothing to mitigate or even protect IPs from interfering with each other attached to the same server.

Source: From my experiences in BurstNet L.A, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Dallas and Miami.

ElliotJ

You could give IceColo/M247 a go. They're in Trafford Park so very easy to get to via the M60.

TeleData is apparently a new data centre that just popped up in Whythenshawe, pretty much next to Manchester Airport.

Jacob

IceColo/M247 won't want the trouble. Melbourne added like 40Gbps late last year so will be more accepting to this but expect to pay out a pretty penny.