Birmingham UK colocation

I have two racks in bond UK.  The colocation is
currently in bond.  The contract is up soon and most
of the feet on the ground in the UK of the company is
in the greater Birmingham area. So I'm interested in
colocating about two racks of servers to Birmingham. 
I would need a cage if the space were shared.

What is peering like in the Birmingham area?  Will
getting multiple provider feeds in Birmingham be
possible?  It was easy in bond.

And can anyone recommend colocation in Birmingham? 
The alternative is stick with bond (in spite of
difficulty for remote hands) so any suggestions on
excellent colocation in bond?

Google search for "Birmingham UK colocation" only
useably yeilds "F1 colocation" and "easy
net". 

Off list is fine.

-Andrew


 
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On 29-Jan-2007, at 15:56, Andrew Gristina wrote:

> I have two racks in bond UK.  The colocation is
> currently in bond.  The contract is up soon and most
> of the feet on the ground in the UK of the company is
> in the greater Birmingham area. So I'm interested in
> colocating about two racks of servers to Birmingham.
> I would need a cage if the space were shared.

If peering and choice of transit is your primary concern,
then you  
might well find the best approach lies in staying in bond
and  
finding a reliable contractor who is local and who can do
things for  
you there when needed.

I've never heard of anybody acquiring peering in
Birminghag.

You can peer in Manchester at the MaNAP, although I'm not
sure how  
well that theory stacks up in practice these days. In any
case from  
Brum it's not much further to bond than it is to Manchester,
 
ignoring the traffic issues.


Joe

On 29-Jan-2007, at 16:16, Joe Abley wrote:

> I've never heard of anybody acquiring peering in
Birminghag.

For the record that was a typo, not some kind of weird dig
at  
Birmingham 


Joe

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Andrew Gristina wrote:
> I have two racks in bond UK.  The colocation is
> currently in bond.  The contract is up soon and most
> of the feet on the ground in the UK of the company is
> in the greater Birmingham area. So I'm interested in
> colocating about two racks of servers to Birmingham. 
> I would need a cage if the space were shared.

We've colo space in Telford (not far from Birmingham) if you
are interested and
a small amount of space in Wolves but its shared only
there.

> What is peering like in the Birmingham area?  Will
> getting multiple provider feeds in Birmingham be
> possible?  It was easy in bond.

Er, this is the sticks really. Closest peering point is
NWIX/MaNAP or MCIX (or
if you know the right people the 'Phantom Exchange') in
Manchester. Our network
connects to both Manchester and bond so we could easily get
you to these using
MPLS...

Let me know if you want more info

J
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No peering in Brum, quickest will be to bounce of bond.

COLT has a data centre in Birmingham and we can do
what ever bandwidth you need to where ever. 

Regards,
Neil.

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:56 -0800, Andrew Gristina wrote:
> I have two racks in bond UK.  The colocation is
> currently in bond.  The contract is up soon and most
> of the feet on the ground in the UK of the company is
> in the greater Birmingham area. So I'm interested in
> colocating about two racks of servers to Birmingham. 
> I would need a cage if the space were shared.

BT have a POP there (certainly our BT leased line into East
Yorkshire
bursts out there), so you stand a chance of getting BT &
someone else
for two transits, if you can find DC space.  There's no
(public)
peering, so you would have to rely on something hacky like
L2TP to get
over to bond for peering... yuck.  Birmingham has a great
Selfridges
store, but is a bit of an IP frozen wasteland.

If your bond DC space is with Telecity, talk to them; they
have
buildings in Manchester (although I don't know whether they
are full).
Manchester has some public peering, and a reasonable
concentration of
carriers, so there's some chance of private peering.


bond has problems - the data centres with space may not be
represented
by the transit providers you like working with, or the
exchanges you
want to join.  The well connected DCs are getting full,
certainly in
terms of power and cooling capacity.

Good luck, I hope if you do move it goes smoothly.  If you
(or anyone
else) wants to share recent experiences of UK hosting/colo
projects,
then I'll be in Toronto next week.

-a