Re: London Data Centres (your recommendations, please!) :)

On Friday 04 January 2008 14:06:10 LinuxLearner wrote:
Hi All,

I want to buy my first rack server, and place it, once I've configured
and built on it in the home-office, into a data centre in London.

Out of curiosity -- did you consider renting a server or, even more
affordable, a virtual server? I have had a limited but mostly positive
experience using a VServer from Lycos Webhosting

peter.

Of course it will be running Ubuntu! :)

Could people please provide some suggestions of who it would be possible
to contract with to get (initially) one of the following:

1. 1u (the smallest rack size, if that is incorrect!);
2. 2u (double the smallest size)
3. The smallest size of lockable part of a full rack. {I understand
this is 4u, but on little research: help!!}.

I have very few funds, as I am in start-up, and need the most reliable,
lowest cost provider, giving me the space, power & bandwidth only.

It would be great if any suggested providers could also provide on-site
hardware support, if needed, on a pay-per-case basis (so I can go on
holidays, and business trips, sometimes, without worry of major downtime!).

Please, guys 'n' girls: who are the major players in this sector of the
market; who is trying to sell 1u, 2u and quarter racks, and doing so
most cheaply/reliably?!?!

FWIW, I access London via Waterloo, so if there is any much
geographic/transport issues of physically me getting to the site of the
server, please provide that detail, too, as I would like of course to
work out how long it would take me to get door to door, hardware in
hand, if things went down.

Finally, and part of the reason for posting here. To differentiate
between the different suggestions; do any of these companies support in
any way FOSS/Ubuntu? I would like to give what little cash I have to a
company that in some way contributes to Ubuntu, or failing that, FOSS
more generally.

TIA - great list; Ubuntu - I love it! :)

LinuxLearner (hereafter LL)



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