Looking for Co-Location in Docklands - Cheap, but reliable.

Trikkitt · 11th August 2008

I'm looking for reliable but cheap (like just about everyone!), co-location in Docklands. My reason for selection is that I live in Docklands, so it'd be very helpful to host my kit there too.

I'm after hosting a relatively high spec server, a 1U DL360 with redundant PSU drawing between 0.9A and 1.2A depending on CPU load.

My bandwidth use won't be great to start with, but I'm concern about how some charge for it. I understand 95th% but that could lead to large unexpected bills. Some providers give 3000GB/month, some 100GB/month, some 1Mbit. It makes it hard to compare, especially if those giving 3000GB/Month have so much contention you could never achieve that anyway.

I have a firewall box thats quite small so doesn't need a whole U to itself or draw buckets of power. How much do providers want for that? It seems an obvious thing to list in the prices, but most don't. Its similar with power, many don't mention an amount they charge if you go over the 0.5A they include.

I can live with a single network port, but I'll need about 8 IP addresses. In addition I'd ideally like an OOB port for the iLO, although would settle for putting that directly in to my firewall.

Any recommendations or quotes?

Mike

othellotech · 11th August 2008

So basically you want 2u, 350W, 3 Powerports, 8IP's, 2 Switchports and Docklands.

Rough-guess £250/month

For quotes you need to post in the requests forum.

For transfer/bandwidth - how much do you actually require ?

aXeR · 12th August 2008

Mike,

Is Kent for example out of the question? It's only about 50mins down the road

Cheers, Jon

JamieBeeston · 12th August 2008

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Originally Posted by aXeR

Mike,

Is Kent for example out of the question? It's only about 50mins down the road

Cheers, Jon

50 mins could be 7 miles in London traffic.. believe me, I've spent a year of my life in 2 hour commutes trying to get from Docklands to Dulwich

Trikkitt · 12th August 2008

Living north of the Thames means that in the morning it wouldn't be a bad drive, in the evening it would be horrific. Anyone who has to even pass the blackwall tunnel will now about that. Its why the estate with Global Switch 1 and 2 has gates to stop people using it as a short cut to jump the queue for the tunnel, the whole estate used to jam up.

Right now I'm not using huge amounts of bandwidth, probably 5GB/month... but at the same time I'm on quite a slow link. What I'm concerned about is spiking too much with 95th%... if I'm honest I've no idea the data usage beyond a very simple report that says how much I use each month.

I guess I'm after an idea of what providers are good, which I should avoid. Its hard to know who resells what from whom. Am I dealing with someone bringing in their own bandwidth and owning a suite, or is it a sub-sub-sub-co-location.

administrator · 12th August 2008

Hi Trikkitt, you need to post in the Requests section in order to recieve quotes.

JamieBeeston · 12th August 2008

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Originally Posted by administrator

Hi Trikkitt, you need to post in the Requests section in order to recieve quotes.

As Neil says,

We can't tell you how great we all are until you post there

othellotech · 13th August 2008

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Originally Posted by Trikkitt

Living north of the Thames means that in the morning it wouldn't be a bad drive, in the evening it would be horrific. Anyone who has to even pass the blackwall tunnel will now about that

Assuming
a. you actually want to drive it rather than walk to a local and
b. the blackwall is even open, there was chaos a few days ago - both the rotherhithe and blackwall were closed, as well as the triathlon going on, so forget crossing a bridge - so you would have been driving down to dartford for access to any Kentish DC's

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Originally Posted by Trikkitt

Right now I'm not using huge amounts of bandwidth, probably 5GB/month...

I very much doubt you're using 5Gb of *bandwidth* unless you're paying £50k/month - you mean 5Gb of *transfer* - so you're unlikely to even hit 1Mb/s at peak/95%ile

Trikkitt · 13th August 2008

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Originally Posted by othellotech

Assuming
a. you actually want to drive it rather than walk to a local and
b. the blackwall is even open, there was chaos a few days ago - both the rotherhithe and blackwall were closed, as well as the triathlon going on, so forget crossing a bridge - so you would have been driving down to dartford for access to any Kentish DC's

Yeah I just stayed in that day, the route pretty much goes past my house!

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Originally Posted by othellotech

I very much doubt you're using 5Gb of *bandwidth* unless you're paying £50k/month - you mean 5Gb of *transfer* - so you're unlikely to even hit 1Mb/s at peak/95%ile

Sorry for the mess up in terminology. I generally see in bytes when its transfer and bits when its bandwidth, didn't notice the different names for them as well.

I didn't realise there was such a premium in the docklands area these days. I've worked in a number of the DCs there, GS1 and 2, Telehouse North, among others, but never did get to see just how much the companies were splashing out for those locations.

I'll stick a post up in the other forum. I guess I was hoping to find a provider review site.

shortword · 18th August 2008

Cheap isn't always best. You get what you pay for. The correct term to use is "value for money" and that'll come with support, after sales service etc. Hard to get decent support for peanuts these days.

Luca · 9th September 2008

I would take a look at Coreix in Stratford. Better prices than Docklands and more personal service IMO. I don't work for them by the way!