Quality UK Colo in London

Very out of date eg: Black Cat no longer exists.

People are always asking about getting decent co-location for their personal boxen and hosting for a small company (or co-operative) to buy rack-space from to co-host/co-locate 1U/2U/3U 19inch rackmount machines. They're all in E14 at the heart of the UK internet in London's Docklands... Basically there are three providing inexpensive ("cheap") colocation:

Jonathan Riddell has done a page on Colo providers in Scotland.

Black Cat Networks Ltd

• http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ (http://www.blackcat.net.uk/) Contact: sales@blackcatnetworks.co.uk
• AS25108/AS-BLACKCAT. Transit: Level3 & Tiscali.
Peering: LoNAP, XP, PX
• Redbus Interhouse, Habour Exchange (HEX): 7th & 8th Floor and Meridian Gate (MER): 1st Floor
• 1U, 100GB (£0.75/GB), 5IPs †, Serial, Masterswitch = £50/month (+VAT).
• Jonathan McDowell and Simon Huggins
  Great for OpenSRS/Nominet domains (well okay, Bogons do that too).

Bogons Ltd

• http://www.bogons.net/ Contact: sales@bogons.net
• AS20538/BOGONS-ASN. Transit: BBC, nac.net & Level3. Peering: LoNAP, PX
• Telehouse North, TFM4
• 1U, 50GB (£1/GB), 1IP †, SSH→console = £50/month.
• Simon Lockhart and Brandon Butterworth
  Reliable Sun Netra T1/X1 boxes only [with built-in LOM, hence no-need for Masterswitch]

Jump Networks Ltd

• http://www.jump.net.uk/ Contact: colo@ Web: [contact form]
• AS8943/AS-JUMP. Transit: Level3, KPN Eurorings, Intensive & BBC (LINX routes).
Peering: LoNAP, PX.
• Telehouse North, TFM4 and TFM8
• 1U, 60GB (£0.50/GB), ∞IPs †, IPv6 /48, Serial, Masterswitch = £40/month (Prices +VAT if VAT registered)
• James Rice and Nick Waterman (also Ryan O'Connell, Jon Paxton & Andrew Mulholland)
  Spodcolo: No S-L-A, No V-A-T, No Money-back, No Guarantee! Just good uptimes...
  Rackspace is tight so priority is to Megabits customers (1U + 1Mbps 95%ile = £115/month)

† Your ISP must not charge you for IP address-space assignments, only based on what you can justify. If you require more than 4 IPs, you will need to fill-out a RIPE-283 form.

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2004 April 26th

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:24:08 GMT - Black Cat up their bandwidth allowance to 40GB/month

Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:57:13 BST - Added reference to Spodcolo as a Jump brand

Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:31:14 GMT - RIPE-219 superseded by RIPE-283 - Thanks to Andy Mulholland

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:37:32 BST - Black Cat up their bandwidth allowance to 100GB/month, dropped Easynet and both went full-time.

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:50:10 BST - Jump up their bandwidth allowance to 60GB/month.

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:08:02 +0100 - Black Cat get their 217.147.80.0/20.