Re: [Hampshire] OT: co-location

Tom Sykes wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know this one comes up fairly often, but I've got a couple of
> co-location questions.
>
> I've been with BlackCat Networks for 2 years now, and they've been
> excellent (despite the price increase last year). As some of you
> presumably know, they've sold up and are moving operations to RapidSwitch.
>
> I'm finding dealing with RapidSwitch tiresome already, and their service
> offering for my needs is hideously overpriced. Does anyone have any
> experience with RapidSwitch and or their sister company 49pence (their
> low cost offering)? What other co-lo providers can be recommended?
>
> Finally, can anyone suggest where I might be able to find a new 1U
> server. I'm not looking for anything fancy, as it's only going to be
> hosting web/mail for a relatively small number of domains, but
> obviously, reliability is a must.

I've been looking in to various options here, but have discovered that
most colo providers are now imposing power usage caps, usually of
between 0.5A and 1.0A. This scares me somewhat, as my current server
(Dell PE1425 - dual Xeon) is using 1.8A.

Where on earth does one find a 1U server that consumes only 0.5A of power??

Tom