Dedicated, virtual and co-located servers in our data centre
 If you want the fastest, most secure website, take advantage of a dedicated managed server in our Cambridge hosting centre.
Unlike shared hosting services, only your site will be running on your dedicated server. This is more secure (as other hostees cannot attempt to access any of your data) and quick (the server will be doing nothing besides serving your website as fast as possible).
A dedicated server offers all the features of our Advanced hosting package. The server will be fully managed by us, so you do not need any special knowledge.
The hosting centre is fully air-conditioned, generator-backed and has high security keycard-only entry.
Co-location, virtualisation and management
Our packages include (in roughly descending order of cost):
- Fully managed dedicated server to your specification (HDD, RAM, CPUs) - can be owned by you outright or rented
- Fully managed dedicated server of standard specification (owned by us)
- Unmanaged dedicated server of standard specification (owned by us) - you get root access
- Fully managed Xen virtual server dedicated to your hosting
- Unmanaged Xen virtual server - you get root access
- Co-located server - your own server supplied, pre-installed and managed by you (cost depends on power requirements, physical size and bandwidth)
For our virtual hosting we have no more than 3 virtual machines per host unlike some other Xen providers. We support NetBSD (i386 and amd64), Windows and Linux hosting. All managed servers run NetBSD/i386 (32-bit). For resilience and backup purposes, we prefer to run dedicated servers in Xen (but with only your virtual machine running on the hardware).
Pricing will depend on average bandwidth and required server specification. Prices start at £50 per month for a fully-managed virtual server with 50GB transfer per month, 1 IP address, 512MB RAM, 20GB of disk space and ssh shell access (with a setup fee of £150). Please contact us for more information.
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- Dual, diversly fed cabinets
- 1500kVA directly from the National Grid
- Twin 250kVA UPS supplying diverse power
- UPS life is 10 minutes at full capacity
- Generators and UPS provide no-break supply to all technical areas
- 930 kVA diesel generator with full load supply within 30 seconds
- Fuel tanks totalling 2000 litres capacity to provide 12 hours of continuous supply without refuelling. Tanks will be refilled after 4 hours operation
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- N+1 redundant DX cooling system providing full environmental control throughout
- Constant temperature of 22° Celcius +/- 10% is maintained
- Constant relative humidity of 50% non-condensing air +/- 5% is maintained
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- VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection)
- Argonite gas automatic fire suppression
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- Redundant links to core network backbone and London Hosting Centre (which is directly connected to LINX)
- 100Mbit burstable connnection to servers
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