Colocation - High expectations ?

FH - Tim · 9th January 2008

Hi guys,

I was reccomended this forum by a uk host.

I work for a uk company that currently offers shared,reseller and managed dedi's in the usa and we lease there too.

We really want to startup in the uk market and the only reason we lease in the usa is because while I trust datacenters, I would at least like our assets to be in the same country as the rest of the company !

So we are looking for a colo provider here in the uk, we will start with 1-2 servers intially and go from there , probably quite quickly.

We will be using mid to high end servers , dual core dual processor min.

Bandwidth isn't too important but either 10mbps or a set limit(2TB plus) on a 10/100mbps uplink.

Here is the demanding bit :

An Excellent network
24/7 support prefferably phone support.
DC would need to take delivery and rack servers and possibly install the os and cpanel/whm etc/basic config.
Insurance?
DC would also need to be able to replace hdd's , ram etc.

What would be ideal is a DC that would provide the severs as in sell them as otherwise we are looking at just the usual dell or hp, Also welcome reccomendations on that as well.

I appreciate your help .

Regards.

Ricky · 9th January 2008

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nitrohosting · 9th January 2008

FH - Tim,

You'll find plenty of hosts on this forum who will be able to offer this. If you post on the requests section of the board, hosts will respond with offers or drop you their contact details if they're interested in quoting.

Kind regards,
Kris

FH - Tim · 9th January 2008

Thanks for the advise, I think I have got most of the information from reading around on these boards.

A mod can go ahead and close this then.

fcolor · 12th February 2008

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