Quoting Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 07/10/2008, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm looking for recommendations for data centres outside of London, >> preferably close to the England/Wales border or in Wales itself. > > I'd recommend against FastHosts in Gloucester, as their customer > service is abysmal. > > Star Internet in Gloucester are a sister company to the MessageLabs IT > security empire and excellent. Although they have London datacentres, > you can specifically request to have your kit based in their > Gloucester Barnwood datacentre. > > http://www.star.net.uk/star/home/hostingoverview.stml > > I'm biased since ML are my former employers. > > You might find a warm fuzzy glow from knowing that MessageLabs offices > in Gloucester host the Gloucestershire Linux User Group meetings (do > come along, next meeting 21st Oct evening), providing us with free > seminar room, free coffee and blazingly, blazingly fast free wifi > (ideal for downloading distro DVDs, and yes they really don't mind). > > I have a Virtual Private Server hosted in BlueSquare in Maidenhead, > Berks. It's west of the M25, but not by much. I'm based in the > Cotswolds and connectivity has always been superb. > > http://www.bluesquaredata.com/ > > My VPS is through CheapVPS, part of Verio: > http://www.cheapvps.co.uk/ > http://www.vaserv.com/ > > Server, should you wish to run ping tests: > isis.aoakley.com > > Sample 10 meg file stored on my server: > http://www.aoakley.com/misc/novellini-bowser-20070724-1800.3gp > > The server runs Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server.
Wow, that was comprehensive! Thanks, I'll check out starnet and I might even make the LUG meet as I'm in Monmouth... :o) M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
