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North England server hosting
Josephhewitt
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I'm looking for server hosting in the North/North West of England, preferably in Manchester, Preston or maybe Blackpool.
I've looked around and only found providers who charge over £80/month, and I'm looking for a small server which hopefully costs under £20/month.
Thanks.
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I think @MartinD has some stuff in Manchester under one of his brands, he's not terribly active here so drop him a PM or get in touch over on VPSBoard.
minivps.co.uk IIRC.
http://bigv.io
http://vps.net
http://serverlove.com
http://simplexwebs.com
No particular order.
Options in Liverpool (linix), Leeds (Webfusion/123 reg) and manchester mainly
Castlegem
The issue is that iomart has bought out a lot of the DC's in the UK, so they are all priced around the same (£60 start point) - as per all the ones you have so far been linked to. There was one 'OK' DC in Manchester that does Co-lo starting at about for about £30 pm the last time I looked in to this, and almost went with them before I saw sense (too much hassle running and owning own kit).
The only place that will come close to £20 pm are the 'questionable' 'DC' in Bradford - They start at £5 pm - http://www.yorks.com/colocation/
Most expensive company in the world by a mile, their customer service is decent but the price you pay you'd expect it to be.
Not sure what you're willing to take but Sheffield these bunch have a good network; https://www.hahosting.com/
Bar that Manchester's your best option for connectivity in that area.
What server specs you are looking for?
Are you looking for a dedicated server? https://www.ukservers.com/ would be the place to go. When I had services in the UK I used them and they were by far the best.
I have a better option if u r looking dedicated server . https://www.4ukhost.uk provides the best choice in my opinion, I got domain hosting and the price is very cheap, fantastic.Also, 4ukhost's 24/7 support is extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and always there!
Hi Gary,
As I'm sure you can understand, we're very suspicious here of people who sign up just to post a recommendation; a lot of times, this is a sign of someone spamming their site, which is quite frankly bullshit behaviour. To help us believe that you're not a lying little bastard like all the others, please could you post some proof that you are a current customer of this host.
Thanks!
@Nekki how's your head after the last night?
In which world? Your happy world where everything is under $7 and nobody makes any real money? With unicorns and magical flowers that fart rainbows?
Back on topic, since I live in the NW, Blackpool is a sh!thole with nothing remotely useful. Preston is better but still highly doubt anyone would put a DC there. Mancester, lots of options - Melbourne's DCs are very popular and pretty good but the prices wouldn't lend themselves to £20/month dedicated servers. Telecity also has a big presence there (more expensive) and M247 (about the same as Melbourne). UKGrid was where a lot of the cheap space was but that was bought by Telecity. There's also UKFast if you don't might annoying salespeople - you can haggle with them though. If you're willing to go further north, Newcastle might be better - some very cheap colo there = potential for cheap dedicated servers.
Edit: since you didn't actually say dedicated servers, Manchester would be fine for a VPS around £20/month. I do actually know Simplexwebs people and tech well and I can recommend them wholeheartedly.
Not great, even morning coffee isn't helping. Been trying to get out of the building for a breakfast burrito for an hour and a half but failed so far.
Come on, how are some of these locations up north...
Inception Hosting has Newcastle unless they moved, but I don't think they offer dedicated servers there. OpenITC also has stuff in Newcastle?
Anything above Watford is 'North'.
I would have said more Manchester! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England
Now you're thinking geopgrahically, but most of the country considers themselves 'Northern'. My wife's from Derbyshire which is pretty much slap bang in the middle of the country, her and her family would always call themselves Northerners.
Are they watching too much Games of Thrones?
They call it 'Dragon Tits'.
I don't watch it, but as far as I know, those are the main things you can notice in the series, are they not.
I don't really watch it myself so not certain, but from what I know it's not an inaccurate title.