[SWLUG] Colo hosting

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Geraint Edwards wrote:
> swlug <swlug at alicious.com> said
> 		(on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:19:34PM +0100):
>   
>> I'm looking to co-locate some servers (up to five 1U servers). Can anyone
>> recommend anywhere in south Wales or south-west England?
>>     
>
> Keith Edmunds wrote:
>   
>> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q="Cardiff+Bay+International+Data+Centre" 
>>     
>
> We (www.bayhosting.co.uk) used to offer colo in Cardiff's DC, but never hit
> the sales needed to make it sustainable (our costs were a major factor - it
> was a BT monopoly).  Cardiff's DC is now full, and no longer has colo that
> I am aware of.
>   
You need to update your website then, eg 
http://www.bayhosting.co.uk/hosting/facilities.php, as it claims that 
Cardiff is one of your main sites and offers rackspace and other 
solutions in a Cardiff data centre.

Also found CSS Leeds, http://www.ccsleeds.co.uk/cardiff.html, which 
/appears/ to offer Cardiff DC rackspace.
> There has been a new DC mooted nearer Newport (at the old LG plant), called
> NGD1.  It was originally to have opened in Q3 last year, but I've not heard
> that they've opened yet.  Watch this space.
>   
You could fit all the servers in the UK in that building, it's huge.

Incidentally the quoted Google search above was me and I'm not Keith ...?

pbhj

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